I am the man on the bus I am the woman sipping a latte I am the girl in the library I am the boy in the corner I am you Virtual love is real Virtual world is real We have no touch We have no taste We have no sight We have no borders We have no flag We have no color We have no religion Virtual love is real Virtual world is real Laptops  Cell phone screens Monitors  Text on a screen We build our world We build our lives We...

Janie turned onto the old gravel road and stopped. The old cruel memories she left thirty years ago came flooding back and made her almost turn around and head back to New York to beg for her job she had just quit a week ago. At that time, she felt it was the right thing to do. Now, she was not so sure. She had not seen her mother since she left that dreadful day. Now she was getting ready to travel down the long gravel r...

Echo calling out Your name  Bouncing off the walls  Of my crumbling heart Deep desolation  Emptiness Despair Beauty in the Breaking dawn only Awakens memories more Darkness hides but brings Comfort not  Deep desolation  Emptiness Despair Echo calling out Your name  Voices in my head Memories of you Empty rooms  Empty heart Echo calling out Your name  Bouncing off the walls  Of my crumbling heart Deep desolation  Emptiness...

Spring is here again. Flowers are blooming anew And the fragrance spreads. Often the rains fall. The wetness soaks the gardens And causes new birth. Fecund are the soils. The green sprouts appear and grow With lively outbursts. *************** Winds blow, heat rises. Feel the humid air around As the storms approach. Gather up the young. Fear the loss of one's children When twisters come near. Basements are shelters. Crouc...

Light a candle in daylight Sing a song to a sun bird Carry water to the river Bake a cake in the moonlight Walk backwards in the rain Dance a jig on the rooftop Fall in the water Shine a torch at the sun  Scream a lullaby  Spin around in circles All because of you  My life turned Upside down Inside out Joy abounding No more sorrow  No more darkness No more tears  Haunting dreams  A distant memory My search is over  A true...

Darkness invade reality, light and color fade. Our world completely tipped upside down. Deep in the gloom, feeling totally betrayed. Words from a friend can remove our frown. Brightening our day with kindness and a smile. Without even knowing, they change grey to blue. Making life worth living, able to go another mile. Darkness fades, again the suns rays shine through. Colour invades and reality returns to entice. Love of...

I will never again. Why you ask? Because I keep getting hurt by those who promise not to hurt me. I’ll never open up again, and give my heart to anyone. There are those who are never meant to be loved, and I suppose I’m one. I know my friends will tell me I’m foolish, and that I do deserve love. But, I know better. I've been used, abused, hurt, lied and painfully broken hearted. I've put my heart out there on the line to...

You know what? I trusted you. I let my guard down because you told me you didn't want to be like my exes. You told me you wanted to be different. You made me promises from day one. You kept telling me to trust you, because you weren't going to hurt me like the others. You told me I was too good to be hurt like that. That J-P was a foolish man, and didn't know what he was losing, when he left me. That when M-D left me, he...

It was dark and cold under the looming canopy of trees. The moon shown through the leaves, casting pale patches of light, obscuring the eerie shadows. Everything was still for this was the meeting place. A frigid breeze sliced through the trees filling the empty space with the rushing sound of leaves. The wind faded leaving a deathly silence and a gathering of figures appearing. Solemn and silent they stood, examining the...

Ursa Major1 High on the iron-blue mountain where the tall trees begin to shorten and the ground is steep, cradled in a quiet bowl is an almost forgotten place. Nestling unseen, beneath one of the few remaining gnarled ash trees, shielded by the rustle of the brittle brown leaves and blanketed in deep snow there is a narrow entrance. This entrance leads to a cave, a silent cave that nothing has visited for the longest of t...

The General stands on the edge of the forest. His grey-green eyes haunted by death and destruction looks over the beauty of the meadow before him His heavy armor matches the heaviness in his heart. When will the bloodshed and devastation stop. Blood covers his armor and face. His own or others he does not know or care. He is lost in despair. His eyes take in the sprawling green meadow before him. Lush green fields with cl...

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Life is like a game of poker. You play by the rules. And you make the smart bets. You sit at the table, folding hand after hand of ten- two, seven- three, nine-five, while everyone else is getting aces and face cards, and raking in your five or ten dollar blind. And then it happens. You get a pair of aces, so you bet them. You bet them big, trying to catch up to the rest of the world. But some fool sitting across the tabl...

Natasha sat at her desk daydreaming, as she looked out over the executive support staff. She was new to the organization, hired on to support Monica, Stefan and Cricket. Occasionally, she worked with Cal on Save the Wolves Foundation business. She was bored and thought how she saw everything going on in the executive support staff pool and she was the lifeguard. Today, the boredom set in because the group of four gathered...

Her life of comfort seemed fair exchange  For penance served in a far off land Neither heat nor hunger could beat her down Spirit growing with every challenge met.  The years gone by more cruel than kind  Scars in her heart map each moment of discord The one true future she now beholds Tainted with the tears of her own bitter despair. ***** The sound of approaching sirens pierced the silence of the quiescent suburb. With...