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Hand me a candle
though its dark inside
ill blow it out
and darling,
ill make a wish to die
Mary had a shadow
It followed her around
Mary had a shadow
She found it in the ground

Everywhere that Mary went
The shadow would follow
Everywhere that Mary went
She felt very hollow

Mary tried to get rid of it
But the shadow wouldn't go
Mary tried to get rid of It
But there was something she didn't know

Mary was her own shadow
And the shadow lived with in
Mary was her own shadow
She was fighting what's within
the white noise is calming  due to the interruption of sober silence
depriving senses, seeming like aphasia, looking through peripheral to see
all but what was was straight in the clear, sight insufficiently corrupted
painful holdings and a hand punched into the car door beside me
screaming about the difficulties, a voice that cracked like stained glass
suddenly given a voice, to only express furthermore misapprehension
a voice that spoke words
that  could  be seen forming in the air above  
the words that wrapped around my body and clung like static
pulled me like a rope twisted leash, forming circulating rusted lesions
across a  protruding collarbone
stare down deep into the roots of a tender willow  tree
look down, and avoid the expression on that face
and the truck that was unnecessarily  punished
now pretend you have aphasia, pretend that lesions don't **** slowly
and pray your face doesn't end up like that car door
 Dec 2013 Alicia
Morgan
outside-in
 Dec 2013 Alicia
Morgan
too many mornings i laid in your bed,
pretending to sleep, with your sheets
pulled up over my head
because i was afraid of what
you'd think if you saw my
naked face

and too many afternoons
i held my arms crossed
over my rib cage
hoping no one would see
how stupid i could be,
thinking if i drained the blood
from my veins or spilled
my guts into the sink,
maybe i'd start to shrink

and too many nights i cried
in the bathroom with all of my
clothes on, in front of the shower,
because i was afraid to feel my thighs
touch under the water

i spent too many hours
forcing my collar bones
out of my chest,
never stopping to notice
my life as it fell
away from me
with the rest
 Dec 2013 Alicia
frankie crognale
i took her to strawberry hill in her black trench coat and black combat boots. it was about 4:00, nearing darkness because of the changing of the seasons. i asked her to sit down in the day old snow. she hit the ground, and i dropped right next to her. a chill arose in the air as the breeze blew. her long brown hair brushed my eyes and her hand traveled to mine; interlacing the spaces between her fingers with mine. her head dropped onto my shoulder, as mine dropped to hers. i looked down and gave her a small peck on her head. she smelled of a midnight musk, which she knew i loved. i noticed she had tears in her eyes, as I noticed a few had rolled down her beautiful face when i pressed my lips against her soft hair. i had no reason to believe she was upset about being there, so i asked her why she was feeling down. she uttered the most lovely words i'd ever heard her speak.
"i missed you so much, you're my best friend and i love you."
the things that happened over the course of the past few months have been a whirlwind of emotions, but filled with pure bliss. i met her in the ninth grade. at the very end of the school year she started talking to me, asked for my phone number, and history was made. she became my best friend, and the first friend i made at this school. she soon told me how i made her feel, how she felt about me, and what she hoped I'd feel towards her. i didn't feel it at first, but once i stepped off the escalator in the airport and saw her standing there waiting for me, i couldn't help myself. I always had feelings for her. i just never knew it. i held her hand as hard as i could as we walked across the clear catwalk, glancing at rooftops occasionally, otherwise we were focused on each other. it's almost as if we both knew it was going to happen, but seeing her once more validated the feeling.
"i love you too. i'm sorry for everything i once said to you, please never let me go." i pleaded, for i needed to hear her a little more.
"dear, i wouldn't dream of it."
i simply couldn't contain it, my lips traveled to hers, more eagerly than they ever had. it was like a scene in a movie. it was the type of kiss where teeth collide, and bodies press as they fall backward. it was perfect. she was perfect, perfect for me, perfect to me. i dream about her every night, and think about her everyday. i missed her so much it was physically painful. she's just so lovely.
i cried so much as i wrote this. the setting was inspired by coldplay's song "violet hill", and is about the one i love. he doesn't love me, but this is my wish, what maybe someday will happen. just a bit of wishful thinking.
 Dec 2013 Alicia
kayla eggfoot
It's year 2050
Every human was born with a symbol etched onto their skin.
you may be asking what do the symbols represent?

Each symbol is an indicator of your inevitable death.
I am Cole Adams and I've been an outcast my entire life
and its sad since I am merely 17 years old.

My symbol has a gun and its very uncommon especially since
I've never seen a red gun symbol before, which is confusing.
We grow up accepting our death and understanding it can be horrible, or for instance
if your symbol is a bed, you die in our sleep.

The people in my school who have the bed symbol are 'popular'
meanwhile loners like me who have the not so popular gun symbol OR symbol containing
a lightning bult. Its the rare ones like us who are subjected to being laughed at, which I don't understand.

Anyway I am just writing my story to explain my life.

I was 15 years old and I had fallen madly in love with a nymphet gorgeous girl, the stained pink dye in her hair with her chipped black nails struck me, I never thought to fall for a girl quite as unique as her.

I'm simple, brown hair brown eyes 5'7 and I never thought she would fall for me, but yet, she did.
We had a beautiful teenage love. We lost our virginity to each other, and in our world its not common to lose it early, just because our deaths could happen anytime.

Her symbol was the cancer zodiac sign, and it did mean the illness. It was uncommon for a girl with such a popular symbol to fall for a boy like me, but she loved me anyway. Her dark empty eyes glowed when she would look at me, she made me forget about my symbol, my thoughts would be gone around her. I loved her.

10 months in and she began to be distant, she didn't kiss my cheek and ruffle my hair. She didn't shoot off love signals as she once did. Her touch felt unknown. She fell for another person, she loved him like i've never seen before.

I never would of thought my symbol meant suicide, but it did.
With my last breath I still loved her, I loved her forever.
This is my suicide note/ story of my life.
I died on April 10th, 2051.
 Dec 2013 Alicia
frankie crognale
i'm currently laying in my bed with tears in my eyes for the first time in as long as i can remember.  this feeling is far too familiar, and i didn't miss it at all.  it feels like one of those old friends you didn't mind not seeing anymore, you just sort of accepted their absence.  although this isn't a friend; it never has been nor will it ever be.  it's a foe, and alter ego, and as wretched as it is to say, it's truly my former self.  i've heard countless times the phrase "the hardest thing to endure is watch the one you love, love someone else", but there is a bit of deceit behind it.  in my personal opinion, the hardest thing to endure isn't having the one you love, love someone else, but just simply knowing they don't love you back.  any person could possess their heart, while at the same time, they posses yours.  it's a dreadful feeling, really.  it's consuming, and with the consumption comes emptiness.  the emptiness is what sits in the pit of your stomach.  it's a contradiction, i guess you could say.  lately i've become nothing but a contradiction.  in the words of an anonymous novelist, a "fatal contradiction", which frightens be down below the contradictory emptiness in the pit of my stomach, goes through my blue veins, creeps into my fingertips, which act as puppets by making their way up to their controller, beginning to claw at their puppeteer to make the thoughts stop.
 Dec 2013 Alicia
Earthchild
8:00 pm
My parents tucked me in at night
my dad smiled at me, kissing me goodnight
my mom sat at the edge of my bed
reading me a bedtime story
departing as I drifted off into a dreaming faze
thats what they would always do

9:00 pm
My parents tucked me in at night
my dad hugged me
turned and left to bed
my mom sat at the edge of my bed
telling me to get better grades
because I was failing math

10:00 pm
My parents tucked me in at night
my dad went to bed before me
patting my shoulder as he passed
shutting that wooden door behind him
my mom cracking the door open "night"
I smiled as I worked through my homework

11:00 pm
My parents tucked me in at night
my mom sitting behind the bright computer screen
telling me to go to bed because she was to busy
my dad huddled under the covers snoring softly
behind that white wooden door
I sat alone in my cold room

12:00 am
I tucked myself into bed
tears streaming from my hallow eyes
sorrowing tremors shaking my fragile bones
knees drawn to my chest, attempt to hold myself together
a trail of dark scarlett snaking down my arm to my finger tips
my head a hazy storm, I lean back unconcious, asleep

     My parents never tucked me in
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