1. I need to tell you something look at 5

2. The answer is look at 11

3. Don't get mad look at 15

4. Calm down don't be mad and look at 13

5. First look at 2

6. Don't be angry look at 12

7. All I wanted to say was hi

8. What I wanted to tell you was look at number 14

9. Just be patient look at number 4

10. This is the last time look at 7

11. I hope you're not mad when I say look at 6

12. Sorry look at 8

13. Just have a look at 10

14. I don't really know how to say this but look at 3

15. You really need to look at nine

The captain seemed unaware

That the battle was already lost,

As he unsheathed his saber

And led the charge into the great foe.

A soldier who has never

Seen combat does not know the vast cost.

Some sounds were meant to never be heard again,

Like the sound of thousands of soldiers singing “Mademoiselle from Armentières” as they marched to their deaths.

#poetry

I feel warm as you pull me closer to you,

Your arms wrapped around my waist

And held me tight.

You smell like almond and vanilla,

Comforting and calming.

All I want is you.

I crave your body near to me,

And long for your kisses against my skin,

Like melted chocolate on my lips.

It creates a million butterflies

That I can’t seem to swallow.

You tell me in sweet whispers

That I made you believe in love again,

And the words that leave my mouth are always true.

“And I believe in you.”

We’re both trying to get through this darkness,

Looking at each other as if we were ships in the night,

Trying to avoid the rocky shore.

You make me a believer

in love.

His human cry caged

in a baby bird’s beak

His feathers like fur

denied wind’s brace

His webbed claws

coiled his hobble limbs

Maybe a mother was

bustled in wooded pines

Or a father watched with

his hollow fixed gaze

I turned a blind eye

Still, the child screeched

Daylight is dusk—

I return to the curb

Perhaps nature snatched

the bird’s split string lifespan

His feathers left traces

in the seamless sky

Or a mother returned

nestled warmth in her beak

I see what I know,

grass untampered

dirt unscathed

earth untouched

Come closer, my love, come closer.

For my message is just a whisper.

Did you know when your time is up, you get to paint the sky?

My dying wish for you, my love, was to see the world I created for you.

There is beauty even in grief.

Sun soaked sheets caught the smoke and whispers of the night before. Wrinkled her skin with sleep marks. The sheer curtains bounced warm light in after a night of pale moon glow. Two bodies tangled with bed clothes. The arch of a foot resting against toned leg muscles. Rough hands wrapped in tendrils of loose hair. Petite fingers curling around a waist. Humid breath mixing against mouths. And the mattress couldn’t help but to wonder how their slumbering eyes didn’t see what a waste it was to sleep with the other so near.

I was sitting here trying to think of what to write for this challenge, and then realized that I was experiencing some writer's block.

I mean really?

Come on.

(Honestly, I have nothing else to add to this, I just thought that I would share.)

Liquid gold, salty and fresh,

Swallows me beneath.

My eyelids and

Blank pupils

Worried underneath.

Rolling in the creamy blue,

Dissolving into the abyss.

The gurgles around me, in my ear,

The conch shell beside me could hear.

Blind to the thick soup,

Limiting me, the gravity also dissolved.

But this was unimportant, since

It has tied me, strangled me with itself.

My arms go up, to the surface, air,

Try to move my head there in despair.

Last seconds to save myself,

I thought,

No, this is the end.

Then I sense yellow warmth,

Penetrating the skin on my face.

Engulfing me, evaporating,

Thankfully, I’ve reached the air.

All my life I’ve had no brain

My friends would call me insane

One day we were in science class

Reviewing the law of conservation of mass

I whispered to Jane

”What from this are we to gain?”

So we left and got on a plane

And out of the window of glass

We saw the new world quickly pass

And that’s how we ended up in Spain

I feel lost,

In a world so put together.

Look at me,

Everything looks so good.

But there’s an overwhelming sadness,

I feel it so deeply.

No one knows my pain,

From the tears streaming.

They burn my eyes,

And stain my cheeks.

I wish someone knew of this pain.

Maybe then they’d care,

Maybe then they’d help me.

-you don’t see how I’m dying more everyday