I've decided
That I will always look up
Because people stare down at their feet all time
And they don't get to see the trees, the leaves, and the sky
And the first time I tried it out
It left me with no doubt
Because I saw an apple tree
The birds soaring
The squirrels in all of their stress
The stars
And it made wonder
Why I ever looked down
When it was so easy to look up
And see the beauties of the world

A blue jay perches
Watches the autumn leaves fall--
And stays there alone

step outside the fire circle,
be swallowed by the night,
step farther into the night,
be swallowed by the stars.

Cry a river of tears, leading to an ocean of pain,
Close your eyes and try to imagine, you can’t even begin.
A day with no sun, a valley without rain,
Can’t even describe the anguish I am in.

I can give you no reason, offer no insight.
The only thing I know, the pain I feel inside.
Repeatedly I’ve asked myself, Will I be alright?
No answer ever came, so through the times I cried.

The sadness consumes me, I can’t stop the tears,
The pain is overwhelming, so much that I can’t see.
The loneliness surrounds me, bringing closer all my fears.

All of this is too much, I long to be set free.

Win some, lose some
Leave or stay,  
The world will go on anyway.

No more important than a grain of sand,
Come or go,
The winds will continue to blow.

We are born, and then we die,
Remembered or forgotten,
Time goes on without us.

make friends, lose friends,
real or not,
end the end we are all just someone, someone else forgot.

~Shawna K. Whaley

The moonlit sky hovers
a dark and empty street
A night submerged with wonder
and stillness

In a blissful voice, the night sang
about a faraway land,
where the pastures danced
and summer was everlasting

Lustrous knights roam the land
and the goblins lurks in the shadow
Like the darkness I lay on
As my bones relish in the calm
of this wonderful night

i wonder what i would’ve been like
if i learned to love myself
instead of being taught to break down every little atom and put it on display
just to be torn apart