We are but lanterns burning with limited fuel amidst the darkness To burn illuminate slowly fade and die Leaving nothing but darkness in our wake once more
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The Bench
A young man learns that life isn't always what we have planned, but what we are givenAny time of year in the south is normally hot, but the summer I turned eighteen, was as if Hades himself had come up from his depths and brought with him the skin scorching, water vaporizing torment to lay to waste on our little South Carolina town. I rem...
Ease Your Mind - Chapter One
All I need is your hand...Rain hit the window, and my eyes traced the lines of water traveling down the glass. Long streaks trailed behind each one, telling the story of where it had been. Every splatter would leave its own reminder behind, letting the person seated know it had ex...
Darkest of darkBroken soulTaste of battleDeep in his throatChoking lifeWar forever lostTattered bannerStomped to earthShattered swordKing heFist to heavenCurses the GodsEyes wideValhalla opens
Anonymous
Fatal Vision
When disbelief turns deadly...I could not help remembering the old homeless man who explained that he possesses psychic abilities. I thought him nothing more than delusional when he told me he could see into the future, glimpsing visions of when and how others would die. I scoffed, fo...
Anonymous
Remembering Pop's
My pop'sMy story begins the day my father died. He was my friend,my mentor, but first and foremost my wonderful loving father. He tried to teach me all about the pains of the world. He would talk every day and he had the patience of Job. He could be funny and ver...
Anonymous
the Wanderer
you dont need to be in the spot light to change the worldAfter a massive war of the four Kingdoms where there was no winner only death the world was shocked to its core the world powers that once held the lands together. Where gone and chaos ruled the land the weak were killed, and the strong seek to control th...
Anonymous
The world I know
you dont need to be in the spot light to change the worldThe year was 1900 After a massive war of the four Kingdoms where there was no winner only death the world was shocked to its core the world powers that once held the lands together. Where gone and chaos ruled the land the weak were killed, and the stron...
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Our lives were perfectWe lived a normal lifeI was happy when we metI enjoyed being your wifeWe loved each other alwaysEnjoyed living our livesEverything changed one dayThat night when we diedWe went out to an affairEverything was alrightThe evening turned...
Little kitten, you never learned to meow properly in the short time we had you. You made weird, half-assed cat noises, now it is very, very quiet at meal times. I will miss coming home to find you sleeping on the end of my bed, or sometimes to find your p...
In hindsight, there was an inevitabilityTo the tragedy that unfolded that day,And no doubt that responsibility lay,With the magnate’s conceited pride,In proposing a match of such unsuitabilityJust to restore the company’s image,Regardless of the feelings...
Barely visible in the inky gloom,The cold bodies of the young lovers lay,Just a glimmer of pale flesh in the dark,The watery fastness their woeful tomb.Unmoved by the sun’s warming ray,Never again would they rise with the larkAnd in the meadows laugh and...
Jack and Jill: Two Minutes
How would you spend your last two minutes?**Legend has it, the greatest thief of all time spent two minutes drinking a glass of wine with his shadow after he killed his victim**.Jack trembled as he placed the gun in his mouth. Taking one last breath, he closed his eyes and pulled the trigger.BANG...
Why, Oh Why
A personal reflection on recent events.In recent months I have been to four funerals,All of them close friends I have known for many years,People I respected, and in some cases loved;People who had all led rich and fulfilling lives,All loved by family, successful in business,And who had all se...
Anonymous
Rest in peace, one of the only men who will ever live in my heart.From the first time I opened my eyes, you were there, with a grin so big nothing could erase it.When I turned 3 and mom walked away, you looked at me and said: "It's you and me against the...