Tick.
Tick.
Tick.
Click goes my pen as I watch the minutes crawl by on the dreary analog clock on top of the door. The door to my freedom. The droning sound of Mrs. Greerson’s voice is ringing...
They will be there when we need them.
They will be there in the next 3 minutes.
They will be by your side.
They didn’t mention that I might have a gun to my head.
Neither...
Working on my own is always how I want to live life.
I am training myself to be like my mother.
She is independent,
Strong,
And she's a special element.
I...
Life now is like
A dog trapped in a cage.
This stage is becoming
A rampage.
I am starting to feel like I'm middle aged.
I go downstairs to see my mother...
Alas the pathetic poetaster
Your plastic words are like children's toys
Stacked up towards the sky with no pattern
Nobly reaching despite background noise
“You'll never make it”...
Looking in the mirror.
Shouldn’t there not be anything clearer?
It is clean cut with precision,
But other people’s views can cloud your vision.
It becomes as though looking in the dark,
The cracks...
CAST OF CHARACTERS
ALEXANDER: ALEXANDER is a man in his 60’s. He never married, and the only thing he has going for him is the post cards he sends to his college sweetheart.
WAITER:...
The smiles
that ran from one end of the mouth to the other
as I laugh, joy
seems to be everything in my comfort.
But other times,
the white feathered wings shed to their black bones
as...
She holds herself like steel
But in reality she is as breakable as glass.
She’s cracked and broken and barely holding.
Crack
Tinkling of glass is all that's heard
Her heart shatters finally...
I Learned early of the walls that are meant to keep people in cages for crimes they did or didn’t commit.
I learned about anger and misplaced hatred and faith in a false hopes and dreams.
I...
It’s crazy to think how big of an affect a piece of plastic and wire can change your life
Open you up to a new world of sounds
Or give you comfort with the old ones that graced your ears long ago
They...
Every morning was always the same. I woke up before the crack of dawn and somehow found the will to keep going on with my miserable little life. I always started with turning on my old grayish brown radio...
