While she wanted "forever",

He could only offer "indefinitely".

We are closer to nothingness than we think.

 

If our tête-à-tête
Should spurn etiquette,
Let us then forget
That we ever met.

I'm playing hide-and-seek with life.

Life is winning.

I travel atop
The wings of a moth
Nimbly guiding our flight
Away from the light

Memories of you.
The lines of your face,
The scent of your skin,
The sound of your voice,
The warmth of your touch,
Sneak into my dreams every night.

I try...

After years of carefully placing safety cones around myself,

You crashed right through them like an inept student driver.

 

 

*tiny edit...

As the girl wiped away her tears, a stray eyelash clung to the back of her hand, hoping to be wished on.
But the girl had already lost the only thing she had ever wished for.

People wonder why I start to sing whenever your name is mentioned.

I sing to hide the sound of my heart breaking.

The jellyfish and hermit crab were the best of friends, until one day the hermit crab moved into a bigger place and starting thinking he was too good for everyone.

Instead of being afraid of lightning storms, I just smile and pretend it's the paparazzi clamoring to take my picture.

I was invited to tea, 
Almost too eagerly,
By quite the motley crew I must say.
As I sipped the warm brew,
My uneasiness grew,
As I, alone, drank my Earl Grey....

A cricket dressed in finery
Serenaded me from under a tree
He tried to woo me with his melody

Unsure what it meant, she watched as her girlish silhouette transformed into an hour-glass-shaped stranger.

Like the mist on a lake being caressed by the sun, I evaporate from your touch.

Without any notice, the end arrived quietly, leaving silence in its wake.

A sage looking bird flew in my window,
His face glowing eerily in the night.
One eye showed me all the wrongs from my past,
The other cautioned me to make them all right.

I continued to watch my reflection as the lake froze, telling myself the lines were just cracks in the ice.

Spending its life reflecting on everyone else, the mirror was frustrated it could never reflect on itself.

Seeing you with her felt like the time I slammed the car door on my fingers. 
At first I was paralyzed with shock;
Then the pain overwhelmed me.   

My car’s headlights
Act as mini spotlights
Offering Nature’s thespians
A wondrous place to perform

With failing eyesight, we watched the ghosts of our younger selves rope-swing into the lake and wished we could follow them.

As she waited for the train to arrive, she clutched her bag and wondered if the blood would leak through it to her pants.

 

 

*I wanted to put a dar...

I admit, I never told you that I could read lips.

But you never told me you were a liar.

I used the knife in my back to cut you out of my life.

When you left, everyone said the pain I was feeling was a  good thing because it was reminding me that I was alive. 

What’s it supposed to be doing for me now that I...

One hired a skywriter to spell out his love for her in the clouds.

The other took flying lessons.

I hate the sun today.

I wish I could just dance in the rain.

 

 

*my daughter said this today after a long day in the hot sun and I thou...

As she watched them float away, the disappointment set in.
They hadn’t been at all what she had expected.

 

 

*for sojushot's "take me w...

I'm glad I'm an outsider.

It's where I met you.

If life is a highway,
then you're the Monster Truck,
and I'm the not-so "Smart Car" that you flatten.

So you're hoping to slither your way back into my heart.

Crying your crocodile tears,
Wearing your alligator boots,
Making your snake oil promises.

"I've got my eye on you!"
Yelled the nasty old shrew!
"I don't believe you do,"
Smirked the crow between chews.

The winner of this year's International Fish Surfing Championship was once again the competitor that could hold its gills the longest.

 

 

*it would...

Sorry, I can't love you right now.

My heart is only flying at half-mast.

He could no longer look at the bright side.

Even when that's all there was.

*for StellarNELR's "Pathetic Fallacy(2)"

When the oven timer buzzed, the muffins thought it was the smoke detector going off, so they fled the oven using the escape plan they had practiced for such an eventuality.

One muffi...

I think when I turn off my light at night,
The monsters come out and play.
I can’t be sure because they disappear,
Before the light of day.

 

 

Struggling in the darkness,
I'm too blind to see,
That what I'm really trying to escape from,
Is me...

 

 

&nbs...

Before painting the leaves the color of autumn,

He collects their greens to save for the spring.

 

 

*For gyllenmaya's adorable illustra...

All the times my heart has been shattered,
And then carefully reset,
Have caused the broken pieces to become,
Too small to reconnect.

 

 

<...

"Grandpa, what are all those sparkly lights?”

“Oh, that’s magical fairy dust! Whenever you see those special lights, that means a fairy sneezed!”


“...Shouldn’t we ...

I could never love you back.

You just ate my father.



*for MaryER's cute illustration "Love and..."*

Wearing her worn, tight costume,
Sprawling on the aerial hoop she performed on long ago,
She tells herself she could still delight audiences with a performance.

If she on...

I always let my imagination run wild.

It can run circles around all those imaginations being walked on leashes.

If it's true the camera never lies,

Then I do believe you wish me to die.

 

 

*for ADH's Remix "Wall of Contempt V2"*

I sailed to the end of the world and then blasted into space in my rocket/ship.

He struggles through the seasons,
Hoping to meet her in Spring,
Never knowing she prefers Autumn,
And waits there for him.

 

 

*for norskkk's ...

When her midnight ride upon its back came to an end,
The dragon heaved a tremendous fiery breath,
Raining glowing embers that turned into countless dragonflies,
Gently lowering...

You didn't know that dragonflies have a secret base in the sky where happy things happen and all your wishes come true because they only fly you there when you dream.

 

The sunbeams and moonbeams heard the music and wanted to dance too,
But as soon as they touched,
They both disappeared.

The dragonflies took her flying,

So that she could know how it felt to be one of them.

 

 

*For wirrow's illustration "sssswwwaaaarrrrmm...

If we wished upon the same star at the same time, 

Maybe we could return to the time when we wished together.

The smooth, white snow is an artist’s canvas,
And tiny Picasso's paint it with snow toys.

The last of the giants fell,

and we no longer felt safe.

 

 

*I took a few lines from M.anda's longer story*

It was her eyes that set her apart from the rest.

 

 

*for Jazminny's illustration "Mushyrooms"*

Out of nothing, came something.

Their family tree told a different story.

 

 

*For Debbie Fong's illustration "Curious Number Seven"*

 

After centuries of watching her creations under attack,

Mother Nature decided it was time to fight back.

 

 

*for Naz...

I have three mood-swinging doors leading out of my house,

So the world never knows which me will come out!

 

* for minidynz's illustration "Doors" *

If in your daydreams I love you, 
And in my night dreams you love me,
Why would either of us ever risk
The uncertainty of reality?

 

 

If Sleep allowed Wake

To take an extended break,

I would happily stay with Sleep,

With my favorite dream on repeat.

 

Too old to fly,
He struggles up the ladder to their spot,
Having mistaken the sound of the wind blowing,
For the melody of her song.

I wrote "goodbye" on the mirror while you were in the shower.

In a hurry to look at yourself, you erased it. 

They would not start their happy ending by walking off into the sunset. 

 

 

*for KenSa's "Storm Clouds" illustration