• Day Seven: Excuses

    Is distance your only excuse?Years have passed,You still haven’t visited,And now I don’t even remember your face.Time and Time again,You claim to miss us.”I’m too busy””The flight ticket is too expensive””I don’t have a vacation now…”Seem to be your only reasonings.Your voice, in my memory,Is now only heard through the static of a phone call.I

    Read more

  • The power of a few words is beyond the understanding of many, as one would often find it hard to believe that something we use so freely could bear so much power. More often than not, We see these words flow with our lives, being the tool we use to communicate and express our feelings,

    Read more

  • Unsolved Murder

    Vermillion blood spilledOn snow-white tiles.Bloody knives are hiddenIn the black of night.Standing orders areGiven to keep guard.And yet the murdererAlways slips the guard.Seeing as the oneTo help keep guard isThe murderer, it seems theMurder will never be solved. – Arsh

    Read more

  • Nature is beautiful in every way, shape, and form. Yet humans sully its auspicious presence and benevolent nature repeatedly. Not once, not twice. A million times more than the biggest number one can imagine. – Maya Desdemona

    Read more

  • Whispering voices surround me,The fence has been broken for days.The lamp posts flicker and burn out,Plunging the street into darkness.Eyes that have been raised in the light,Seek into darkness for comfort,And the hands brought up in the dark,Shy away from the eyes that blind. – Arsh

    Read more

  • What twisted fantasy might this be?Might you be too blind to see?I simply ought to throw you up a tree!How dare you insult my precious ebony!An idiot, is what I don thee!One cannot see,Without the pale hues of ebony.One cannot truly be,Without my dear black, can ye?No Yin without Yang, my fellow, see!Without this one

    Read more

  • Stages of revenge

    It stings. Frustrated tears pool at my eyes, Unable to do anything else.It simmers.Darkened eyes look away asYet another bribe takes place right under the noses of thoseWho were once trusted to protect us.It burns.Knuckles are bleeding,Pummeling the punching bag as thoughIt would chase all problems away.It boils over.Knives stick out of thoseWho once dared

    Read more

  • Sun and Moon

    Cross my heart and hope to die,My battles seem to shut you down.I never meant to leave you hurting,Yet all our tears seem so redundant.Our priorities were never the same,It took me breaking to even notice.I watch for success, you wait for love,And neither of us will compromise.You are the sun, I am the moon,We

    Read more

  • Whichever wise soul that stated that watching a documentary can range from a fun family show to an absolute questioning of self was wholly correct.To harden one’s heart is an expression I always knew of, yet seeing its reality simply plastered for all to see truly dawned its heaviness and severity on me.But alas,Even the

    Read more

  • A.D.L.S

    Arrogantly asking, archly austere and,Ardently avoiding all active Argos.Deeply drawling, darkly damning,Doll-like dangers are disarmingly dancing.Loudly laughing, laboriously looking,Luminous luck of lurking look-outs.Strolling softly, slowly stalking,Showing strange signs of sagely sagas. – Arsh

    Read more