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Ashleigh Kelco Oct 2012
Keep your head above the water
while they drown in the under-toe.
Take a breath,
the salty air stings your lungs.
The waves are coming,
swim for the shore.
Too late.
The waves overtake you.
Come up for air,
spit and gasp.
Where are you?
They're calling for your help,
drowning below you,
trying to pull you down.
Just breathe.
Swim with the flow of the water.
Feel the sand beneath your feet.
Keep your head up,
freedom is in your fingertips.
This is for anyone who has ever felt like they were struggling with negativity, peer pressure, or just the constant difficulty of helping everyone. Keep your head up.
Ashleigh Kelco Oct 2012
Eyes crystal blue,
matching the ice you hold in your chest.
Take from me?
You've already taken all that I've got.
You were a boy
torn apart by the menacing voices of society.
Who are you now?
A beaten down, bruised and abused
child of the system.
Repeating the cycle.
Put down your fists
and wipe the blood off of your knuckles.
Take a step back.
The damage is done.
Are you happy now?
Ashleigh Kelco Oct 2012
Technological zombies,
faces buried in phones.
Laptops attached at the hip.
Imagination has run dry,
video games have become the creativity.
Stone-cold hearts replace love and compassion.
People hide behind their computer screens.
Alienated from society.
Superficial people forcing their way
into big businesses.
We are the mindless, thoughtless.
Social structures crumbling,
and hierarchy destroyed.
We are the technological zombies,
brains decimated by electric power.
Ashleigh Kelco Oct 2012
As we sat so silently,
cross-legged in the grass.
We watched the reds and purples turn
slowly into black.

Memories that never fade;
The New York skyline shining bright.
Climbing trees in summer time
our knees scuffed up from the height.

Fighting over music choice,
sledding down white hills of snow.
The times we stayed up extra late,
watching movies we didn't know.

The nights it rained for hours,
and the countless board game wars.
The days of making funny faces
at other people's cars.

Those little moments lost in time,
but as memories they remain.
Even though you're gone for now,
I'll never forget those days.
On April 23, 2008, my life was ultimately changed forever. I lost the person who I considered my best friend. This is to him and all the memories we shared.
Ashleigh Kelco Oct 2012
Where are you?
Is it beautiful?
Are you beautiful?
Take me away.
I want to be lovely too.
Is it everything we believed?
Can you even see me?
Are you watching over me?
Am I living up to everything
you expected of me?
Take me with you.
I want to watch too.
Can you fly
with blinding white wings
and a halo on your head?
Are you alone?
Take me with you.
I want to fly too.
Ashleigh Kelco Oct 2012
Scream.
You can't wake up.
The darkness surrounds you and encloses you.
Run.
There is no getting away from the man in the mask.
He's gaining on you.
Hide.
There's nowhere to go.
Just a dark hallway and the
footsteps.
Tap
     tap
         tap
             tap
rattling against the floorboards.
Silence.
Are you alone?
Don't turn around.
He's there.
Breathing.
"Take off the mask."
Who will you see?
It's you.
Ashleigh Kelco Oct 2012
Memories that taunt us and haunt us.
Memories that break us down.
We are the broken, beaten, glass children.
We shine in the happiness
and shatter in the sadness.
Life a constant struggle;
we must battle on.
Everything stolen but not forgotten.
Take a breath and close your eyes.
Nightmares will not hurt or destroy you.
Smile.
We are strong enough.
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