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i've never felt
more alone
than when
you leave
without
warning
Short.
when will i get to see
a world no longer scared?
scared because it scares itself,
scared because of hatred.

why can't we change the world?
because we can't change ourselves
is it too hard to ask for love?
is it too hard to change?

how did all this happen in the blink of an eye?
how did the world suddenly collapse?
collapse in a way it seemed like it could never
ever be fixed again

where will this bring us?
to a place of peace or war?
where will we see ourselves?
as of now, nowhere *far
the series of horrifying events happening in the world scares me, please send your prayers out to the world
 Nov 2015 Alisha Mcleod
REAL
A second
A minute
An hour
A day
A month
A year....
Your life can be different
Can change in a matter of minutes
Or in a matter of years
I drive my life slowly
Unknowingly
Where I'll end
Cause at any moment
I may not be here
 Nov 2015 Alisha Mcleod
KAT COLE
It's gone.
All of me.
No voice. No motions. No thoughts. No conversation.
It's packed and shipped away.
I'm screaming to the blank faces that circle around me.
But their words are too vibrant to recognize my echo.
I'm gone to sea with no plan to return.
Push me away.
I want it.
I need it.
I crave to be gone.
All of me.
Let silence consume the world that bind my feet to this rotted soil.
I want it.
Apathy. I get it now.
 Sep 2014 Alisha Mcleod
KAT COLE
Maybe it's the way she can stare at the edge of the coffee table for hours without blinking.
It could also be the way her lips will go days without parting.
Or maybe it's the way she loses track of the last day she slept.
She doesn't recognize herself as a person, but a walking body.
With one pull of a string you can unwrap her only to find out she was hollow framework.
Like an unfinished structure.
A tired, silent hull refusing any fulfilling substance.
 Sep 2014 Alisha Mcleod
aar505n
You were the first
without knowing,
burst my balloon
with simple harpoon

And opened my eyes.                          
To a world in disguise.                          
I soon realize the lies told.                    
and began to swoon for thou.             

I let you graffiti my brain
the pretty words like concrete
permanent imprint, dominant in nature
The ornamentation of my determined mind.

Black and Blue,                                      
my undoing                                          
my favourite viewing                            
to which I was glue to                            
            
It was a slow grow
didn't know any better
until the letter came
your name centered in the
middle

Like a benign vine,                              
dining with a glass of wine.                
Sent icy shivers down my spine.          
entwined with flames,                          
sent from cloud nine.                           
                
But that was then.                                
and this is now

I have since moved on.                        
I no longer fawn.                                  

But I can not forget thee.
when you still fill me with glee

So I thank you,                                    
for my change is thy's work.              

For being the first.
and I will never forget you.
Trying something different
Let me know what you think
comments and criticism
welcomed!

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