Hearts are funny things
I feel mine rise and fall, jarred
like captured summer fruit
fat in syrup
some days
others, pickled sharp
and tucked away in acetic darkness

That sinking feeling must mean that it's now Monday,
someday, probably tomorrow, it won't be.

one cup of coffee before I'm off, he
says,
Monday's are always a rush.

I could 'pull a sickie'
but you know
that's not like me,
I'll take the slings and the arrows
and wait 'til the sun goes
down.

Dark forces
Stay out of the light
No shadow cast

They reel-in aspersions
From casted doubt

Walking paths
Through the woods
A dark force

Whispers come hither
Disguised between  
Leafy barking trees

             X

The traffic light
Turns amber

The car races through
Only to
Drive into

An old man
Wearing sunglasses
      
                O

The dark forces
Make one become
Sleepy-eyed

The darkness forces
A vision of a
Hundred billion Suns

                X

Lampposts discuss
The disgusting force of darkness

With light comes the day
Truth is "darkest before the dawn"

                       O

Light dispels those
Dark (and *****) forces

That come out
To play hard
Into the night


end

By Arcassin Burnham

is it too cold,for me to get in,
‎I know your secret,
you know my weakness,
‎no more discussions of the matter,
‎mad titan,
‎if this is what you want to do,
‎go head and leave then,
‎saying you don't miss me,
is really hard to prove,
‎is it too cold,can I remind you,
‎that I'm just as cold too,
‎with an extended attitude,
‎blocking your social media,
I know it won't really mean **** to
you.