Trapped Stories

I am shackled to the back of your mind For a reason, you cannot find Why do you keep me locked here? I wish your intentions were clear I can go days without sustenance Surviving on the crumbs of your existence Gnawing on the bones of your effervescence Starving for your celestial presence Didn’t I earn redemption? Am I not worthy of salvation? Blood on my hands from a crime I did not commit Sentenced to life for something...

Entangled withinYour spiders webNo Escape Entranced by your eyesConsuming myLost Innocence Writhing upon my bare skinThe succubus of yourNaked body Your lips close to my ownStealing my lastBreathe You caught meBoth heart and soulForever yours  

Just pondering.Can you name even one truly two-dimensional object? Stuck? I can not think of a single one. A photograph still has a thickness even if it is small. A line on paper? Still, has the molecular level of height making it three dimensional.I would argue that we actually live in a five-dimensional universe. Length, width, height, time, and spirit, make up our world’s dimensions. I won’t address five for the sake o...

I'm back at work now... working as a waitress at Applebee's. Taking down orders from customers, taking orders from the managers and the cooks. They don't yell much, but any loud or unfamiliar noises send fear and adrenaline skittering all the way through my body and flashbacks through my mind. Nobody really ever notices unless I stay there for too long and don't come back to the restaurant fast enough. Usually that's when...

Decisions Cripple our daily thoughtsLoved ones pulling one wayFriends the other DesiresWishing to be a lone manNo one pulling, tearing me upForever tearless DreamsWelcome hiding placeAlternate reality in consolementForever alone DeterminationLocking myself awayFor the love of my descendantForever barred Decisions, no moreDesires, no moreDreams, no moreLife, no more

I feel trapped, caged, waiting to get out. Then what? Go to college? Be force-fed information again? Sit down and have people tell me what I need to know? Go to another institution, following more rules and regulations so I can do what, get a stable career the rest of my life? Everyone's always telling me how important it is Everyone's doing it Everyone's going to college. What I really want to do is run barefoot in an op...

Why resist,When I am clay in your hands to mould?You forge my shape. Why hope,When tears elicit no pity or mercy?You are cold to me. Why try,When all the ways out are closed off?You hold all the keys. Why play,When it always plays out the same way?You win and I lose. Why?Because.