Sunrise

Golden sun given human form,Molded from the flesh of the earth,Animated with raw sparks of lightning,Eyes full of vibrant life,A heart still beating with blood,Flowing furiously like a mighty river,Warm and soft skin like dough,Shifting to the smooth touch. Clouds cover the sky with billowing capes,Bare fragments of light pierce the veil,But they are drowned […]

My Time in the Universe

I didn’t know how sick I was until my mother told me. Even with all the doctors visits and the constant probing, she never said the words out loud until she had to. It was the day after my ninth birthday when I started to get headaches. My parents figured I was just going through […]

Alone

I can hear the stream of beeps,A wavering line with unsteady gait,It smells too clean to be,Such a miserable place.And it is a miserable place,Where you can count each of the monitors,Beeping like some countdown clock,With unspecified time,Only the realization that it is short.Emotions bubble and well and seethe,Beneath the flushed flesh of my skin,They […]