They told us many do-nots in our time, but you never once listened. So on a cold December day, we ventured out into a forest of silver leaves and black ice to have a picnic on a blanket of snow. Your mouth was a chimney, puffs of air spilling from its opening. We held unsheathed hands, both rough and dry from the cold, harsh air.
The river we stopped at was roaring and rushing and raging. Here, you said, was where we'd feast. So we sat on the frozen bank of mud and dined on peanut butter sandwiches and hot chocolate.
You finished long before I and neared the river, tossing stones into its depths. I watched, warned you not to g
A crown of bayonets laurel his head, filled
With misgivings and dreams- puffy little clouds
Drifting him higher, brushing a throne of solitude
A love to lose; a lifetime to love
Pretty muse with blushed cheeks and crimson lips
Wavy mahogany caressing along her chin
Her sad piercing blues and shattered heart
Fragmented by pieces of his bayonet throne
And, he, scarred by her heart
She remains at bay- pawn advances.
Rook takes bishop. She catches his eyes, begging
He shifts, realigning circlet, rubbing chin's whiskers
No, his muse will not balk, silently hovering at hand
Pride raising, his dreams collapse as she saunters off the
There is a certain feeling that I dread.
It is a constant fear floating around my head.
What if I lose all of my childhood dreams?
What if they rip, tear, and come apart at the seams?
I'll never be an astronaut,
But I can always dream, so I thought.
There is no chance I will be a super hero,
But when I pretend, suddenly I am a super weirdo.
Who does it hurt, when I am driving in my car,
If I pretend I am in a spaceship, flying by the stars?
Why should it even matter, when at work,
If I pretend I have super powers? Don't be a jerk.
Should I abandon all of my silly fantasies?
I don't want to, can't you see?
This is the world I cho
A day tirelessly spent
Was drawing to a quiet close.
The dusk began to dust the skies
with stars, as the moon arose.
Ethereal light that bathed my face
Began to cloud my mind.
As my gaze drifted into space,
My thoughts weren't far behind.
But Drooping lids called misted eyes
Down to the treetops bare,
Where thoughts alight,
And then take flight
into the forest there.
I paused, but into the woods I went
In hopes to find repose.
I wandered free from presumed end.
But then, the unworn path I chose
Changed its course to bend.
I cared not if I should get lost.
Contrarily, I welcomed such.
They say if one should lose his way
H
The still, ebony pool reflected her face
Small, pale and curious
Innocent and untainted amidst the debris
Of lives lived on the edge
Her existence was an afterthought, a pause
In their race to drugged oblivion
The void called and they followed
Like sheep to the slaughter
Trailing her behind them like a charm
Or an abysmal lure
as they followed the tracks on their veins
to unspeakable places
Too caught up in the march to hell
To notice a gem in their midst
As the intent for ecstasy and anguish built
And broke like storm waves
I hunted, rummaged through dive and alley
Where soulless, empty lives gathered
Armed with anger, ba
You aren't an Adult yet... by saevuswinds, literature
Literature
You aren't an Adult yet...
You should have heard two shattering sounds that September night, one being the sobs of a mother, and the other, a bullet hitting through the thin glass of a coffee shop. I remember conversing with the victim just a day before his name would appear in the obituary pages of the local newspaper. The leaves were dancing off the branches, flaunting off their beauty to the world. The brook we used to play at as children had not yet froze over, but judging by the brisk air that nipped at the tip of both our noses, it soon would be.
"Come on Richie