The Woman With No Choices
I used to watch her lean out windows While fear bound me in icy chains I watched the woman with no choices Choose to struggle, falter, and struggle again And I…
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155 stories written on Ficly, 2012–2014, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
I Dream of Monkeys
Dan woke up to the sound of his daughter’s screams. As he raced across the cold floors, his heart pounding with terror, the bloodcurdling sound faded into…
April Showers
Dirty fingers dig deep into dark mud To bury seeds in a festering hole Poison holds the young earth in an unnatural winter While the groundhog abandons its…
Proof of Trust
If you trust me to catch you when you fall to guide you downwards without impact And you fly without fear to ground you your only tether a connection that…
Food for Thought
I crave the connection That comes from a single source A lonely light in the constant darkness Which (in its solitude) starves me Of all others In my…
Balance
We are creatures of contradiction Fluidity our greatest strength and source of debilitating fear Even our greed A malignant cancer of deliberate distance Is…
As the wind shifts
Slender stems are crushed beneath our exuberant collapse as familiar fingers dare to twine together with a newly woken sun the only witness We have gazed…
Love is watching someone die (Version 2)
The greatest gift I can give In this sterile white room Is the warmth of my presence And the knowledge that I will stay As your fingers lose their strength And…
Love is watching someone die (Version 1)
Cupid cackles without puckish mischief to lighten the pain of arrows aimed at naïve hearts lured from their cage of bone and blood relatives who would protect…
Delaying the Dawn
I shot the moon as she waited for dawn For a fleeting glimpse of a sun now grown And prayed for a piece of a past long gone My eyes followed the path my gun…
Pick Your Path
There is a point ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ P into the abyss where the choice ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^It’s time to spread your wings to delay a…
Of course she cares
Do you remember those stories about mothers who lifted entire trucks off of children trapped beneath They performed impossible feats of strength and speed to…
Philomena
They say our fathers tried to save us When they sent us to the nuns As they prayed for our redemption And sold our blameless sons
Frozen by Fear
The whispers follow us everywhere Dripping sweet poison in our battered ears They promise sunshine In an sky full of thunderclouds And warmth For a ground…
I Think Not
Before she knew Of the escape Presented by a pen Leaving scars on a pure page She lived In the madness that spun Her head like a top Until she was in danger Of…
Corrupting History
The past blurs Beneath present politics And warps the written word By assigning current stigmas To script composed long before Running water or light bulbs…
The Coming Cold
Darkness spreads into the daytime As chill creeps into our bones Torrents of tears are coming closer And when flora sleeps so does the sun So find a shelter…
As the Shadows Spread
Have you ever wondered where the shadows go When the sun is bright and beautiful Do they sleep Dreaming of darkness in world of garish white Or do they hide In…
Le Petite Mort
If you only live one more moment please love me fast because I die beneath your graceful fingertips harder than I’ve ever lived
Sunburned
Today is the day I burned Today is the day my skin could no longer squirm away From the touch of his hot fingers Lost to unconsciousness Brought on by one too…