Challenge
Challenge of the Month XII
The Finale. You’re living on the streets and want it to end. Write about your last moments, why you’re over it, and how you’re about to go out. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose. $100 purse to our favorite entry. Outstanding entries will be shared with our publishing partners.
Change my friends
I love it here
cool wind
alone with my fears, people talk less
Although the street light comforts me
the breeze at midnight won't agree
My castle walls are made with paper
I assemble it when sleep comes over
He comes so late and leaves too early
sometimes it feels like he won't be visiting
when he does, we forget the streetlight and people walking
My two best friends never meet
not long after sleep awakens
hunger eats most hours with me
I weather through his aches
He sings for my embrace
His toxic love weary me
not as much as a bed and a hot meal
proper shade, filled with cotton and wood
To say I love it here
is to hope I loose my friends
not sleep, I want him near
hunger visits once or twice a year
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