i call out to you
echo chamber
you call my phone
instant answer
give me a chance

my hand on your arm
a fire inside
my head in your hand
heal me from the inside
give you a chance

what does it mean to be
me? with you as you are.
can you fill this hole?
overflow me

your concept
permeates
into me

become liquid
sticky sweet
can you hear it?
replay it three times
love sounds because I love you
but we knew that already

Glasses weigh heavy on the newspaper
Time to gain news

Little baby doll got a new dress
Pressed with flowers and diamonds
For the high school fest
But the shadow men hunt
Where the glass ball hung
So they tore it to shreds
And left her for numb

A blue mother on the street is weeping
Sweeping ashes of leaving
After a cradle was taken
And the box was a cell
That the man claimed a bell
Could paint it education
When clearly a jail

When 12 kicking boys had entered demise
Their eyes gazed around in goodbyes
As the mouth shut them inside
Now the river is flowing
And noses are blowing
As the ball is aside
And no one is toeing

I stand up and stretch
A page has been ripped
And a brown drop of bean
Gently covered their face
A name is nothing but a headline
And a life but a text

The pig has learned to stand it seems
His seams been tied with newfound peace
So humbly has his weapons been ceased
But how long can this charade now last
The past’s been proven to re-act fast
The southern neighbor bows to no beast
They firmly remember a red borne past

By Arcassin Burnham

You worry too much,
You worry yourself,
You worry us all,
You worry at work,
You worry at school,
You worry for people,
You worry for love,
You worry for hate,
You worry for mom,
You worry for dad,
You worry for him,
You worry for her,
You worry at church,
You worry at clubs,
You worry for siblings,
You worry for babies
You worry for tv,
You worry for news,
You worry for tragedies,
worry for worlds,
You worry Marriage,
You worry for rings,
You sorry for,
You worry too much,
You worry yourself,
You worry us all.