I thought it was a gift behind your back. It was a knife for mine.

You broke the ground we both stood on, yet you wonder why you also fell.

your hazel eyes

get me sunburnt

but i like the way you shine on me

seated on a swing, two buddies make a promise to have each other’s back.

#ForAllEternity~

Between freshwater pebbles, they nestled. Until the unique migration towards sea, called them to change.

Heart breaking, I asked grandfather if he still knew me. He smiled with empty eyes.

Staring in the mirror,

Sunken eyes, hollow smile.

Gazing ahead,

Only a ghost looks back.

Daddy lived, loved, laughed and cried while drinking gin from the bottle until he died.

She had escaped, battered but unbroken, her soul aching for the life she would live.