In the beginning you hated us because we weren't like you.

Now you hate us because you can't be us.

Oh, how our moon has pulled your tide. We make you creep closer and closer. Your eyes on the prizes. We feed the mouth that bites us. Then we let you go. Fall back into the bevy of others just like you. Go on.

Get back to where you

"No, it didn't happen. Don't acknowledge it.

But it happened.

And you are so dirty.

And you are so conflicted.

And you are so humanAnd you are so consumed by the hive of emotions buzzing in your head that things start to distort. Louder and louder it gets. Louderandlouderyouscream. At least you think you're screaming. Maybe it's ( Read more... )

I believed her. I really did. I thought the whole damn world was against her. I thought she couldn't sin. She wasn't the best, or the brightest. She wasn't the prettiest, the ugliest, the dumbest, the.... She.... She wasn't anything. But I was there for her and I made her happy. It didn't matter what she was, wants to be, did or didn't do, or why ( Read more... )

Back from our journey we arrive at our destination. Late as usual. Temporary escape is still an option. We walk up to it. It's dingy, covered in grafitti and dimly lit. But it is heavenEnter ( Read more... )

So I get the girl and we ride off into the sunset or skate off into the night as the camera fades to black and the credits roll. Or if the medium of entertainment is a book the story ends with a "Happily Ever After" and a "The End" in those curlicue letters I loved at that time I think was my childhood. And after the credits finish or the book is ( Read more... )