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  Oct 2014 Kaleigh O
rained-on parade
There are stories in your eyes.

I never told you how
sometimes I fell asleep
with the thought that you
were perhaps the moon-

always disappearing
with the dawn.
I would awake with
nothing
but the shape of you
on my bed and the
gloom of you on
my skin.
  Oct 2014 Kaleigh O
Sophia
I wonder what will become
of us
when our flesh has abandoned our body
overtaken by the folds of our skin

I wonder what will become
of us
when our entrails will be covered in rot

I wonder,
if trees will bloom out of our chests
or if the dirt will stuff our throats,

and fill our hollow eye sockets.
Kaleigh O Oct 2014
The waves compelled her to jump
To feel the adrenaline that made her heart thump
To walk right in and be comforted by the endless blanket of sea
She knew that danger could arise, the kind that sets her free
The desire to do so took its toll, she knew this would be her last chance
She closed her eyes and with a smile she got into her stance
As she jumped, she felt the world blow off her without a care
She then realized that life itself is just one huge dare
Kaleigh O Oct 2014
By the ocean, standing alone, no one else but me.
I decided to jump, become a part of the never ending sea.
Swim far, far away never to turn back.
Swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming, on a different track.
Keep on going, far enough will always be to close.
All the failures of my past, never to be exposed.
Hurry time is running out, it is almost dawn.
By the time they notice I'm missing, I'll already be gone.

— The End —