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 Jun 2013 Erin
Danielle K
The Sailor
 Jun 2013 Erin
Danielle K
The sailor didn't know
much about the sea. In fact,
he knew nothing at all. But when
his little boy looked up at him with
admiration, how could he speak of
his failure to know his own profession?

With his son propped up on his lap,
he began to tell a tale of the vast seas
and the heavy gusts of wind that were
strong enough to throw a grown man
overboard. And as his boy oohed
and ahed, the sailor felt something
akin to guilty pride.

It's a shame he didn't
listen to his own storytelling, for
one day, it was his turn to be blown
away by the wind and swallowed up
by the sea.
D.K
 Jun 2013 Erin
Danielle K
Unrequited love is
what it was.
I was ready to
offer him the
moon, but
he already
had the sun.
D.K
 Jun 2013 Erin
E B
association
 Jun 2013 Erin
E B
i will always associate back flips
with my first "boyfriend" in the third
grade who has probably now grown
up to be the type of guy who takes
pictures of himself shirtless in the bathroom
mirror and tells his girlfriend that she's pretty
but not quite as pretty as he is.

i will always associate playgrounds
with my elementary school sweetheart
and hearing my favorite love song and
him walking five steps behind and defending
me when he thought i needed it.

i will always associate the rain
with wet tables and standing up
and laughing with friends and talking
and being wrapped in someone's arms
for the very first time and hearing "i missed you."

i will always associate "almosts" with the guy
i never really realized i wanted until it was too late
and seeing him walk around holding the hand of the
girl who wanted him when i didn't and seeing him kiss
her the way he wanted to kiss me once upon a time
and with ******* up really really irreparably bad this time.

i will always associate short time periods with the two weeks
when i belonged to someone I never expected to want,
when he kissed me like i mattered,
when he held me as though he would never let go
and then told me we should "take a break" and
come back to us when the "time was right."

and i will always associate happiness with these times
when i was loved and wanted and needed for just a little while
and believing for just a moment that i was special.

and you know what else?

i will always associate failure with the entrance of something better
i will associate failure with a narrow escape because if it were meant
for me to have then i would have had it but it's not so i don't.

i will always associate life with beautiful complications.
An old one that I never published because it needed work. I think I like it now.
 Jun 2013 Erin
Zoe
Do you care?
 Jun 2013 Erin
Zoe
I needed your help.
I had come to depend upon you.

I am thinking about you,
but do you care?
...
Just a little something I found. :)
 Jun 2013 Erin
Zoe
Don't Leave
 Jun 2013 Erin
Zoe
Don't leave now,
I need you more
than ever!
...
 Jun 2013 Erin
Damaged
All I need
 Jun 2013 Erin
Damaged
I just need assurance that someone out there still has hope in me.
 Jun 2013 Erin
Timothy Brown
number
 Jun 2013 Erin
Timothy Brown
I am one.
I become two
with you.
Three, maybe,
if we get lucky.
but my prefix is un
so I am one.
© June 18th, 2013 by Timothy Brown. All rights reserved.
 Jun 2013 Erin
jeffrey robin
Evolution too
Is evolving

Come for the ride!

And live

---
You know what you know and you know if its true
----

Honestly!
--

Honesty

Takes you by the Arm
And

Guides you

Down the Road
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