The Ship is Sinking
Don’t let me fault you for your lack of trying, For I am just as guilty as you. It’s not the fact that I am slowly dying, The truths beneath my fictions lying…
Paper Ships
The sun was setting low on the horizon, casting paint-splatters of reds, golds, pinks, yellows and oranges across the churning waters. It had been many years…
Farewell to Ficly: A Sentiment Expressed In Text On A Screen
There isn’t much that’s left to say, but there isn’t much that’s right to say either. __________________________________________________________________________…
Goodbye
it’s too late to say goodbye All the things I never knew Never bothered to know Maybe I was little But you are never too little To learn Or To care The flood…
All the things I'll leave behind
All the things I’ll leave behind The school, the teachers 3 years,The Good and the Bad The pathetic drawing From 7th grade Left In the art room’s Dismal…
The Last Goodbye
They say there’s only enough time for one more message. I guess I need to make it count. I’m supposed to tell you how much I love you and how I don’t regret a…
Hiatus
My life doesn’t seem to be going anywhere Everything is crashing down on me I don’t seem to be making any progress And I don’t even feel like ME It seems the…
Sunday Mornings
The months have fallen to weeks. The weeks have succumbed to days. The days will dwindle to mere hours. I deluded my (otherwise) logical mind into thinking I…
Untitled Poem #14
These nights won’t last forever, just like the cakes we half-hearedly bake won’t last another five minutes with all of us swarming it. These nights, however, I…
One Of Those Nights With The Window Rolled Down
There it is again. That late summer chill to the brisk night air. The change of pace from the sweltering season of sticky nights laying out in open fields…
Self-Disciplined & In Control
He had the urge to hold her. To brush her tears off her cheeks. To run away with her. He didn’t do any of those things. He had cultivated enough control to…
In A Strange Time Of Your Life
She stood at the front of the class, her face carefully composed with a mask of joy. Her eyes scan the class for any shred of regret, for anything she cold…
Separate Ways
We split up after that. Nick stayed on in Milwaukee, getting the job we all wanted. I sort of pitied him, to be honest. Trapped there with no options or…
His side of the story
After passing without noticing him every day for weeks he caught on. Though he had all the signs of being in love, her heart so black, didn’t even see it. In…
Goodbye.
*What made you think I’d be okay?* Was it the shake in my lip, the look in my eye, Or the way I couldn’t stand to say Goodbye?
Woodworker
“I always admired your work.” “The fact that you can say that is simply tribute to my failure as a father. All of those days I spent toiling at the shop were…
Twilight Goodbye
The family was near the back of the dusk procession, a young man holding a hand of both of his small children. Little Elie didn’t quite know how to feel…
I'll see you in another life.
Goodbye. (junk characters to fill in space. This limit is annoying.)
A long goodbye
Grandpa Michael made some good investments, and I stand to receive quite a pile when Gram finally goes. Alzheimer’s disease is starting to get to her. She sent…
Goodbye on a breeze
I lay cuddled next to my mommy. She was warm and the night breeze was chilly on my delicate bones. I shivered. She moved and enveloped me closer into her…