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She spent all her time staring at a blank canvas until tears started rolling down her cheeks.
I waited in silence until she stopped trembling and her eyes were not sore.
She said she can't see beauty in lines and colors anymore.  
That is when I picked her up from the floor and placed her in front of a mirror.
And whispered to her, "You are the only art I adore."
 Feb 2015 Amber Bowen
Alyssa
I'm in trouble...
I've been in trouble from the start.
The moment you climbed into the ***** seat of my car you peaked my interest.
And in that single moment, when your eyes met mine in the rear view mirror, you stole a sliver of my heart.
From then on I knew my life would change; I gained the only light capable of making this black hole of darkness easier to escape from.

You were the light house beacon and I the tiny weathered boat searching for the shore.

Alas you made excuses as to why we couldn't be together and my darkness continues to swallow me, but you still remained my beacon.

I guess I just realized I always loved you.
I was always in love with you, but now it's more clear.
Especially since you are not here.
I'm afraid. I'm terrified in fact.
Is it finally our turn?
No, I guess not.
I still have to play this ******* waiting game, like I have been for 6 years.
I've become fluent in this game.
What's one more year?
7 is supposed to be a luck number, right?

Maybe I'm just bullshitting myself

You've broken my heart before, but we didn't really recall.
We had teenage angst,
Drugs,
Music and
Art to distract us.
Now it's the real world, and this is very real darling.
I'm terrified.
I don't want to scare you with the truth but, hell, I'm scarring myself quite frankly.

Just old feelings dancing with new ones...

When in reality they've been the same feelings all along just amplified 1000 watts, because it's almost our time.
What's one more ******* year?

I need to take a step back.
More like five.
I do this all the time.
I dive and drown.
But we've dipped our toes in the water before..

*You are forever my always
What's one more year to the 6 I've always loved him?
16 years old in the beginning  now almost 23..
What's one more year?
 Feb 2015 Amber Bowen
ESR
Euphoria
 Feb 2015 Amber Bowen
ESR
Sit with me,
on the beach that harbors the ocean of our success.
Listen,
hear how the waves quiet themselves
sacrificing all they are to take in their own
beauty.
Feel now,
how all our surroundings come to a stand still
bending to the will of our
brilliance.
We have done this together,
we took control of the sky,
and stopped the clouds of their cry,
and moved them away just to check
if the sun was still there.
It was, it is,
but if we were hit by the fact that it was gone
we would not concede,
we would mold what we have
into what we need.
We will not bend under the pressure they put on us,
we will use it to refine ourselves into
the diamonds we always were.
You
A bronze droplet
Brazenly flirts with
Your plump earlobe

The night's embers
Wishes you to be
The envious talk of
Provocative whispers

With you
Darkness reveals
but never hides

The night's flames
Grows higher and higher
Consumes and scars

Every inch of melting
flesh a memory
An undying ember
A brazen mark of
the one the night
dare not hide
**** me,
just do it now.
I'm done with this life,
with all its stress and anxiety.
My parents say
that I'm a demon hotel.
I say
that I'm just living how I want.

**** me,
just throw my life away for me.
I'm done with all the tests.
I'm done with all the misfortune.
There's no one
that will ever love me.
At least,
it feels that way.

I'm so confused.
Some people aren't ignoring me,
but yet they are.
I feel so lonely...

These hollow hands,
this hollow body...
It needs something,
someone to fill it back up.
Yet no one seems to hear the echo
from inside.
Why are you depressed,
my friend?
Why won't you talk to me?
Why can't we go back to the old days
where we always answered?

Why won't you tell anyone,
my friend?
Why are you so down?
Why are you unseen?
Why can't we be closer again,
the way we used to be?
My heart will not be denied
Soul, body, and mind
I will not be confined
I'll reach for the sky
This, I will live by

Even after I die
I will be immortal
My words have no goodbyes


**-Joseph B Schneider
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