an aching heart doesn’t just go away. even though you want it to. it sits there, eternally rotting – a fruit green with envy, jealousy. grown and nurtured by the fear inside of you. you can’t turn off an aching heart. it hangs like a weight from that beating organ so that soon enough, it pulses faster and harder than in should even in the … Continue reading aching heart
i don’t believe that someone can just be gone. there’s a god out there who’s taken her because he couldn’t bear to be without her. i know it. i don’t believe that someone you love can just disappear from your life. because what, then is the point? i don’t believe that in a split second all your loving and all your hating can … Continue reading if what they say is true…
river bends inked with glistening pearls of water – hydrogen, oxygen that when separated are life taking, life giving. and together, life itself. river bends caressed by steady flows of water that swim protected by clouds of flowering yellows pinks blues purples. by towering trees on bladed greens in crumbling browns. but now that’s all they are – memories of colour. river bends … Continue reading cry me a river
lies – smooth soft shielding the truth lies – scalding malicious a dagger to reality lies – protective or harmful right or wrong? goldenchild31 Continue reading lies
The sun dripped from the sky, seeming to melt me in its relentless heat. Beads of salty perspiration coated my forehead and I slowly became drowned in the substance, my body slick and sticky. My breaths turned to pants, which quickly turned to desperate gasps. I clutched the icy surface of my drink bottle, guzzling the life-saving liquid by the litre. The dense and humid … Continue reading bushwalk
Shaking him violently, Amanda willed him to awake. “Wake up! Get up…” Her attempts were useless. Moist droplets fell down her cheek, the stain of their wet path smudged across her face as she dried it with her hand. “Please! Don’t leave…” Amanda stood up, the noisy side effects of her weeping following her as she marched toward the barracks. “We must fight today. Too … Continue reading the creatures
the undergrowth. 