Gone without a trace Million pictures of your face No one has seen or heard You have sent no word The joy inside is gone Without you life feels wrong No laughter fills the air I wait but its not there No smile to greet…
Category: Miscellaneous
Prompt Hour Thirteen–missing person
The Shape Surrounding It was my best friend’s fifteenth birthday, her party held in the garage of her home. I stood in a dusty corner and watched the others, as was my wont, hoping I wouldn’t be noticed, observing as my solo soul required. Warmth…
Ethan
September 2016 will be three years. You went to a party. Your phone pinged a tower near your home. Then to now. No word. Friends, family, law enforcement, strangers, dogs and divers, planes and pedestrians have searched. When harvest happened that fall, all expected you…
Slide
With each decision to stay behind or move ahead or go with or without we slide a little to the left or right each time a different path of sudden realties like getting a massage on the way home instead of going to the party…
Insubstantial Ether
When who and how to love is a mystery what to do to be happy is insurrmountable where to go to find purpose is impossible and if any of it matters is how you live. Then Lost is how you live does finding you matter…
Water
the sound poured out the sink, flowed out the washer, dripped off my hands… surely this house would be cleaned
My Rock
Blue sky’s cast cloudy shadows on the concrete that is your love. My rock.
Ladder to Heaven
Reaching, pulling..always pushing myself to go farther, but never getting anywhere. I am climbing this ladder, Continuously all night The moon, so bold, it’s full tonight I cannot Stop! I say to myself But I can’t…Why am I doing this? Is it for glory, this…
Missing
I remember the cold dreary day in the begging of December when I was told you were gone. You left us. On your own accord. Just like that. you. were. gone. You left us. On your own accord. Just like that. On your own accord….
Dance and Sword
An evening full of shower A girl’s coming out The music got slower As she stepped out The lad moved about Trying to sneak a peak The girl stayed hidden No features of her leak A collective gasp sounded As she came in full view…