**** the voices on TV that scare us into depression
**** the killers ravaging the innocent and the gentle
**** the institutions placing us into corners
**** the religions trying to sterilize our minds
**** the powerful that feed on greed and power
**** the lazy that leech off the hardworking
**** the women who use men for ***
**** the men who use women for ***
**** the people that don't believe that you are strong
**** the weakness in you that you know you can defeat
**** the false prophets of false beliefs
**** those who do not respect
**** those who do not love
**** the apathetic
**** the lazy
**** the rich
**** the poor
**** the dead
**** the alive
**** the miserable
**** the happy
**** those who say that life is not finite
**** those who say that life is not beautiful
**** everyone
**** yourself
**** death
**** all that does not make you a better person
**** all that does not help bring happiness to others
**** all that does not make you smile
**** all that does not make you weep
**** all that does not make you feel alive

In this life she is untrusting
She says she is a "new soul"
Unhappy with everything she tries
She doesn't understand the ways of people

My mother, she knows
That this is not yet her time
She is here now to get practice
For the day of her prime

I am here to watch over her
She recognizes my "old soul"
More acceptable to human nature, I am
Therefore I remain more peaceful

She will pass one day, but I do not fear
Because I know our paths will cross again
Whether it be 40 years from now or a thousand centuries
Our souls will forever remain friends.

P**   Put your thoughts to words

O  Over a piece of paper, computer screen - or whatever

E   Edit your work to your satisfaction

T  Tell us tales with your fingers - let it be your voice  

R   Read your work over, and then read someone else's

Y   Yearn to express yourself, again and again

Im engulfed by darkness,
trapped by the monsters and
nightmares that fill my mind
each day and night.
Why can't I escape!?
Im drowning,
but there's no water.
Im choking,
but I still have air.
Im sleeping,
but my eyes are open.
Im dead,
but everyone says Im alive.
Why am I ťΘгŤųГэÐ
by these MoNsTeRs
but no one else is?
Why do I live in the
nightmares,but no one
else dose?
Im a MonSTeR,
I hate everyone and
everything.
Im a demon,
I destroy anything good.
Im death,
I **** everything.
Im engulfed by darkness,
living with the MoNsTeRs
and the NiGhTmArEs.
I don't want to escape,
Im one of them.
Im the angel from hell...

Imagine,
being trapped in a dark cell that is your mind.
your only friends are loneliness and fear.
Their only there to make sure you stay in the   Dungeon of Despair.
      “How did I get here?
   I don't remember leaving the                                        light...“
                     you say
then you shudder as fear kicks in,
                the Ĺiģнť?
    no,you don't want the light.
your not good enough to know                               anyone there,
     besides the light is ŞĆĄŘŸ.

   Imagine,being so ßŕøķęń that your thoughts no longer are clear
all you can do is curl up in a ball
    and hold back a tear so the monsters won't find you in fear.
  loneliness starts to comfort you
as the scars on your ribs and hips
            mock you saying
"you are no longer worthy of life
        you distorted monster!”
               ΜøЛşȚεЯ?
   Thats right!you almost forgot!
  your a monster no one can love
           not even the other
                мΘήŞτЭŕŠ

I resent the mask I wear,
     The one that covers up my fear.
                 'cause all you see,
            Is how brave I can be.
                  When in reality,
I'm nothing more than a trembling child