Belinda Davenport contacted me on social media two months ago. We were best friends in high school, but went onto different colleges in differing states. We lost contact. I loved thoughts of catching up. So, I met Belinda for lunch at a trendy bistro on First and Main. She said…
She wakes to a thunderstorm Maybe the rain is lethal Bringing back old memories Love isn’t always equal Deafening thunder rolls on Sounds just like a beating heart A blinding blade of lightning Slices the morning apart Maybe the dawn is warning Is screaming out in pain All of the…
She watched the casket lower into the ground. The metallic bronze finish was dulled by the overcast day. She would feel despondent, lost, and alone if the situation were real. If that really was the person everyone believed it was. The coffin continued its descent. She knew she would want…
I never liked Bob. I liked him even less when I found out about him. He moved down the street last year. We assumed he was just your average Joe Lunchbucket, and from all appearances he was. He worked at the bank, like several other people on our street. His…
She had made it forty-three years, six months and fifteen days. Hope still eluded her. She emptied another bedpan into the dilapidated toilet and returned it to its owner. How the hell did she end up here? She’d recently concluded that it would never change. She’d started as a CNA…
Why is it only beauty I can never see? Why is it the beast always glaring straight at me? You hear a single whisper, a forlorn compliment, And you don’t know the beauty on which their breath was spent. You never see the light or the writing on the wall,…
Where did you go my friend? Why won’t this sadness end? When did those dreams expire? Why did those feelings retire, And leave me alone to burn on the pyre? I know yesterday lied, Said the feeling was denied. When did the world become so cruel? I’m still the…
So the sun set early today, Saw your reflection in the water, by the way. Laughing and smiling through space and time, It’s a shame it ended and you crossed that line. Just one thing I will always know, How much you loved me before you let go. They…
Days are gone Days are gone Bleeding reminiscence Days are gone Days are gone Far beyond remembrance If the dream should shatter If the memory should fade Welcome to my world Only dream of better days Take the theory from your heart Take the hope from your mind…
When you owe so much more than you can pay, When you find your soul mate just died yesterday. When you search all your life for a beautiful dream, And when you catch a star they leave the scene. It’s another night where anxieties rule. There’s a masquerade going, and…