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 May 2015 AFJ
Tiana Figueroa
&  I'm trying to extinguish it
 May 2015 AFJ
susan
the wall of strength i've built
     can be destroyed with just one look
       from you.
 May 2015 AFJ
ryn
Captured
 May 2015 AFJ
ryn
Let me be captured by the night.
Engrossed in the conversation
between the stars.
Syncopated twinkling like...
thousands of fireflies
trapped within sealed jars.

Let me be enslaved by the moon.
As I drink her glow in
greedy insatiable gulps.
Crestfallen...
Her beam with an agenda...
As the landscape she sculpts.

Let me be ensnared by my solitude.
But I hear crickets...
Chirping and chipping away at my
bastion of dreamstate.
Persistent calls
I try to shun
that never abates.

Let me be trapped in my thoughts.
So I could harness...
And immortalise them in
indelible careless scribbles.
Erecting and...
Rebuilding them from the
rubble of conflicting squabbles.

Let me be overwhelmed
by the mess of my being...**
Let me wallow
Then emerge strong from this
decrepit state of mind.
Let me breathe heavy from my
punctured lungs.
So I could heal in time before
true solace
in this dark,
I would find.
 May 2015 AFJ
Emily Raso
Untitled
 May 2015 AFJ
Emily Raso
You are good,
That is how you will stay.
The darkest hour will never tick,
It is how we are made.
Hatred stalks regret,
like a hunter and it's prey.
 May 2015 AFJ
cassini
Goodnight
 May 2015 AFJ
cassini
My eyelids are so heavy now
I'm slowly caving in.
The light that once alit my eyes,
But 50 shades of dim.
You grasp my hand
To pray for me,
Although It shall not do.
It's one more song that you can sing.
And one more I owe you.
 May 2015 AFJ
Jennifer Weiss
What sets you on fire?
What fills your soul
with flame?
Is it the same desire
burning within you,
that causes you to
glorify His Name?

Is it something causing you to tire?
Is it something that makes you feel
the same?
If so, this is not your calling.
No, upon this work
do not build your name.

You must learn what breathes within you.
What dances through your soul.
Do you like to teach children?
Do you care greatly for the wisdom of the old?

Catch these treasures you were blessed with.
And spread them whenever, wherever you can!
God gave you these gifts of Heaven to share
not grasp tightly within your hand.
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