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 Feb 2014 Faith
Nat Lipstadt
Hannah! Stop that.

Hannah!
Did you hear me?
Hannah!

Go to your room!*

Really?
Seriously?

Go to my room?

Yaaaaay!
Hallway Conversations Overheard, perhaps like Bus Poems, a new series.  The father speaking in bold, true stuff. Hannah, a two year old muppet girl down the hall, well, that's my voice, responding, in italics.
 Feb 2014 Faith
A
"Girls shouldn't smoke"
I'm sorry sir, say that again?
Tell that to the 15 year old hispanic girl who sold her virtue under the guidance of the traffic lights to pay off her mother's cancer bills.
Tell that to the wife of a man who
beat
beat
beats her, because some nights she refuses to kneel at his supposed genital altar and confess her sins.
Tell that to the girl who has spent 6 months carving her home address into her forearms,  hoping that her Mum would smell the rust and come and rescue her.
Tell that to the girl who was stolenshackleddruggedsold under the consent of her father who used her body as a paycheck to settle his blackjack debt.
To the lonely girl. The ugly girl. The fat girl. The anorexic girl.  The bulimic girl.  The girl.
"Girls shouldn't smoke."
Tell that to the women who find their prayers in the daily grace that is, nicotine.
Just like men do.
 Feb 2014 Faith
Samantha Sitzes
Hello old loyal friend, I see you have came to check up on me,
But what you don't understand is that I want you to let me be.
You hardly ever leave my side and your touch is like piercing knives,
You filled my mind and heart up with hurtful lies; why?
I suppose that is your job,
When I finally come to realization on what is going on, I begin to sob.
You hurt me deep down in side and it feels like my emotions are protesting against you; my emotions spark up like an uproar,
Though many times I'm walking around in a dazed stupor.
Oh but how joyful I come to be,
When I finally see you leave.
Happiness fills my soul, and it is then I know I am whole.
My dearest loyal friend, I told you, you wouldn't stay too long,
And now you are hiding and hissing as I sing a cheerful song.
So long, farewell, I hope I don't see you ever again my dear,
For that if you show up again I'll send out my soldiers and make you fear.
What you don't realize you ignorant ******* is that blood is thicker then water,
And instead of bringing me down with you, you will be slaughtered.
 Feb 2014 Faith
ReluctantFantasy
You proposed when we were 6.
I never forgot you.
We dated when we were 17.
I blew you in a park.
You blew my mind
and my heart away.
We drifted into separate lives
when we went away to college
but dad never
gave me the messages.

Now you're married unhappily.
5 years of fantasizing about me.
You found me
on social media.
We've chatted for months.
Yesterday, you told me
about the dreams--
the ones I haunt.
You tell me your dirtiest thoughts.
You tell me about the pedestal
you where I reside;
I could never live
up to your fantasy.
And I don't want to.

I've thought about you
my entire life.
I gave it up when I found out
you were married.
Then you found me.
Now you're in my head.
I'm the unwilling mistress
of your mind.
I never injected myself there.
So why do I feel so guilty?

I want your friendship.
You still make me laugh.
This isn't fair.
There's nothing in it
for me.
You have everything
to lose.
How did this become my ***** little secret?

Why did you have to get married?
Why can't you get a divorce?
Why can't I quit you?
 Feb 2014 Faith
Daylight 4U2C
Too tall to know,
too small to see.
Too impatient,
to ever be free.
The escape hides,
and none will seek.
All who wonder,
lie too weak.
A silver-gold path,
to show my way.
If only. if only,
I knew night from day.
A nickle, a dime,
either way I've done time,
because of my crime,
to love too divine.
For I, so simple,
live a life of regret.
For I, so anxiously,
tend to forget.
"Life is but a dream," they say,
and I live in a dream everyday.
Now can those who hear my words,
understand my thoughts in thirds?
That, my friends, is how I see.
That, my friends, is how my mind talks to me.
It tells me what I wish to hear,
and that is what I often fear.
Does anyone ever see me there?
See me wishing to go somewhere?
For I, so awful, wishy-wash,
lose focus on reality.
For I, so awfully awfully lost,
don't know when I am being me.
For I, so tall,
never know.
For I, so small,
never see.
Comments?
 Feb 2014 Faith
Bershauna Yancey
A figment of your imagination.
A simple picture out of a dramatic kids story.
A scraped knee after a heart attack.
A tear into a river.
Minor compared to major .
A simple taste of pain compared to the entire flavor.
Do you agree ? Pain is nothing .
Well then you've never experienced heartbreak .
You've never experienced Lost .
Your Not Human .
But then if your reading this of course you know pain is much more .
If you don't agree , your heart is surely false .
And your mind is surely Lost
 Feb 2014 Faith
Talon
Overcome
 Feb 2014 Faith
Talon
Collapse in the evening
and in the morning rise.
You’re the hero of this story
and you will overcome all demise.
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