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John Edward Smallshaw 6m

When work becomes overpowering
because you've put too many hours in
it's time to take a break.

The work will wait
it'll always be there
there's always someone who'll do
even if that someone's not you,

go and sit on a beach
and
bleach your hair white
or get down to the club
and
jitterbug all night.

Sia Harms 6m

Sky's Sorrow

Gratified storm clouds,
Rain that never stops,
Slowing its downpour—
Did all of those tears
Travel down the drains,
Through the aquaducts,
To the Earth’s core? 
Has that become the
Epicenter of our world:
The Sky's sorrow?

amanda lees 10m

Choosing me

I am too needy for you
Too much.

But actually I am much more
More than you even knew.

I muted myself down
Held back for you.

Well now it’s about me.
It’s my time. Sorry boo.

I don’t want to wish you loved me,
Or to even just respect me, do you?

It’s sad you’re so selfish and I hope you get better and but I’m not gonna sit around and wait for the later.

I deserve honesty, love, and lust.

I deserve flowers, a family and trust.

I deserve me to feel whole and true with not just anyone but especially not you.

Paige 12m

Degradation

Now starts the chant
Of
A
F I R E
B R E A T H I N G
M A N

Frances Raeburn 12m

Call

the last time you called
you said you missed me
the last time you missed me
was when you called.

nyant 19m

Home

Dearest reader,
What is home to you?
For me it entails safety and solace,
A place to rest my head,
Where I am known fully yet accepted.

For many years I wandered,
seeking refuge in places and people,
yet still feeling the deepest lonely,
words have been a way for me to explore,
this sense of lostness,
at times a certain truth leaves me feeling understood,
then I change and grow and it becomes a never ending quest,
leaving me weary from searching.

There are many troughs but at the crest I find rest,
I find home and more in a person,
A King and a Priest forever blessed in the order of Melchizedek. (Heb 7:17)

"If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him." - John 14:23

Hanzou 26m

Fooled

I was once fooled by you,
Your words, your promises
I handled it, said it was a thing of the past
I got through it

Then I got fooled again.
Twice.
By your words, your promises,
I let myself believe you.

I knew you weren't gonna change,
Not your past mistakes,
Not your past actions,
You're the same as you were,
Before.