Hope
Hope By: Opera Ghost I can't be free, So don't hold on to me. You'll be trapped in this cell! My fate is not yours as well. I'm chained to this wall, Where no one hears me call. But you came along, To sing your sweet song. I...
Hope
Battlefield The air around me was hot with the smell of death. Everything around me was crumbling with incredible speed, while people around me fell to the floor. Whole buildings were ripped apart as a massive blast from an Abrams tank shell left a...
Hope
They say that what makes a place home is the connections we form to it, the people we know, the events that happened there, even just memories, good and bad. But it all starts somewhere, with a single link. Often times, its a friend, one that you know...
Is there hope?
Is there something I can find Buried deep in my mind, An allure which ensures Me of hope? So pure and unadorned, So naked, as was born, Just a light, just a spark, That which pulls upon The heart, To awaken, and allow Me...
The Rebirth of Dragons
It was their twilight hour. The dragons had all come to accept this truth. After they had all sacrificed so much to end one of their own. To save the world they were tasked with protecting they gave up their chance for a future. The aspects only...
Fears of a Newbie Writer
I started writing this after I submitted to an anthology, and feeling I didn't give them my best. I felt at best I only gave them a "polished" first draft. Already thinking I got rejected before the letter even came. (I'm still waiting as of writing...
Open Up
If you open up your mind, Tell me what you see. If you open up your eyes, Tell me what you feel. If you open up your heart, Tell me what you hear. If you listen with your ears Tell me who it is that's there. Is it that special someone, The...
"Life"
Can you help me, my dear friends, . to support my kin and not to simply shelter, to encourage them and not resort to force, to guide and not to drive before me, to show the way and always from the front; . to follow on but never follow...
To My Absent Son
To My Absent Son By Carl Blessing/Murphy Slaugh My Absent Son, it's been many months Since I last saw your face. Yet in my mind, I still see and still hear you, Your memory I will not erase. I think of my actions to try and help, Though I...
Empty - Chapter 4
He stopped in the city park for lunch, gratefully dropping the heavy bags by a picnic table near the small creek that split the town. But Rachel the raccoon plushy never left his side. He set it on the scarred surface of the table and retrieved on of...
Senses Fail Those in Hell
The heat seems to lick my eyes, jumping in My soul, boiling my mind like the meat it Has been, useless like matrimony, sin. The smell of butane fills the air, my brain, Holes driven in my skin, my dark blood drips On the floor, the beat that...
Just Living Chapter 3
Just Living Chapter 3 Sometimes waking up is difficult. Frey would have days where waking up simply meant his body and mind would try it's hardest to keep him down and beneath those sheets, an overwhelming miasma of depression or anxiety keeping him...