Life is cruel, when it takes your loved ones. Life is cruel, when you can’t say goodbye. Life is cruel,

“Can you breathe?” the air is asking, as smoke fills my lungs. I am crouched under a leaf, the tears streaming down my face

I see your face. Lifeless and pale, resting on a pillow of white silk. I try to pretend you’re sleeping, but the tears in my eyes betray me…

Peace comes: When laying under the stars. When wrapped up in his arms. When listening to bird song. When speaking to God above.

I close my eyes to surrender to th… but instead get bombarded by image… Your smile flashes at me from the… Your laughter bubbles out, and it’s like I’ve gone back in ti…

It’s a partly cloudy but terribly cold day. I’m running late for school and still have to scrape my truck windows of ice. I finally get there about five, maybe ten, minutes late to my U...

I walk around, feeling whispers. Avoiding the eyes that prosecute m… The stares. The glares.

You have two choices in life; feed the fire, or, let it die. Be it passion,

Waking up in darkness, the moon shining through my window… With tear filled eyes I sit up and remember what I was dreaming. His smiling face shining.

Don’t leave me brokenhearted. Don’t leave me in the dust. Don’t pretend you love me, if all you feel is lust. I’m scared you’ll walk away.

Trailing kisses, hands on my back, hold me close and I can’t breathe. Perfect romance, my heart beats fast,

I saw him, standing alone in the rain, crying for someone to love him. Hungry, lost,

center When I’m with you, I have no worries, but then I don’t see you, don’t talk talk to you,

Lord, Things are unbearable. I have been shouting. I have been crying. Hoping you would listen.

I was sixteen when it happened. My best friend Lilly convinced me to go to a party her boyfriend Joe was throwing and like an idiot I caved. As Lilly and I walked in the door she ran of...