If Wishes Came True
If I had only one wish all my life,
I would wish to make you my wife.
I would wish to wake up every morning to the smell of your skin,
I would wish to make you happier than you have ever been.
I would wish to always be there for you,
I would wish that my sweetheart is never ever left blue.
If I had only one wish all my life to live up to,
I would only and only wish for you!
-dear diary
I regret. I regret I hadn't kept a diary in all that time I was hurting. A day-to-day journal of my brokenness, of my pain, of my agony, my distress. Poems. I had disregarded my Number 1 passion. My words did not proliferate, instead I just soaked my bed with tears and praying so hard it would go away. How could I have been so careless? All those times I could have made art, poetry, books, all wasted in a single act of, Go away. I don't want to talk to anybody. No, many single acts.
And if, if there is a grander event, a bigger event than that, that would ask for my tears, for my body to stay in bed all day, for my mind to be lonely again, I would do so, in a flight of passion. Hurriedly. I would scurry to this grander event, happily shed my tears and write about it. Hell, how have I not known about this before? For if there is a passion that I would not happily enslave for, in a glance, in a thought, in a second, it would be writing
Now I had forgotten. I forgot to be angry, to be hurt. My heart does not bleed anymore, but also my ink. My ink refuses to bleed, the way it so automatically used to before. Nothing. My heart is happy, but not my pen. I would wave it, shake it, throw it, but it would not wield its literary magic it once used to bestow...
Prose Challenge of the Week #55
Pssstttt...
Prosers. It's back!!!
It went on hiatus and now it's back and better than ever. It's only Prose Challenge of the Week #55.
This week we will be doubling the prize fund and the length of time you have to win it. Yes, that's right, the Challenge of the Week is going to be worth $200 and will run for two weeks.
After these two weeks, we will return with a weekly prompt and a prize fund of $100.
So, let's take a look at how you can get your hands on the prize...
Challenge of the Week #55: Write a story of 200 words or more about a stranger. The most masterfully written piece, as voted and determined by the Prose team, will be crowned winner and receive $200. Quality beats quantity, always, but numbers make things easier for our judges, so share, share, share with friends, family, and connections. #ProseChallenge #getlit #itslit
200 words (or more) for 200 big ones. That's $1 per word. Easy right?
Put your pens to digital paper and get entering the first Prose Challenge of the Week 2017.
Here's to big and bold things.
Until next time, Prosers,
Prose.