Here You Can Rest

My skin tingles, a thousand pinpricks that prove that I’m still alive, even though I don’t want to be. It’s getting harder to put one foot in front of the other, to keep on keeping on. Life wasn’t supposed to be like this; it wasn’t what I planned. Fate had other ideas. I’m breathing, I’m… Continue reading Here You Can Rest

Yesterday

When you’re young your life is full of time and possibilities. You rush through each day, never worrying about tomorrow. Then one day you wake up and don’t recognise the person you’ve become or the life you’re living. Hopes, dreams and ambitions, once held so dear, are now nothing more than echoes, remnants of a… Continue reading Yesterday

I Loved You

I used to think we shared something special.  That we mattered.   Although I never found the courage to say the words.   I loved you.   Deluded as I was then. Deluded as I am now.  I still do.

The Struggle

I still wonder how things ended up this way.  Struggle with it and second guess myself, even though I know the answer. Things have changed.  We’re older, our lives moved on.  Sometimes I feel as if I dreamed the past, but then I find something from that time, and the memories come flooding back. On… Continue reading The Struggle

Unbecoming

I hate the person I’ve become, but I would have hated the person more if I’d stayed. I miss the things we shared, but I couldn’t play the game the others could. I wasn’t prepared to sell my soul; sycophantic behaviour is not a good look. It’s sad when this bitter and twisted version is… Continue reading Unbecoming

Dust to Dust

She may be smiling; the life and soul of the party; everyone’s friend with not a care in the world, but inside she’s dying; her heart is a block of ice and the pain of the lie that is her life slowly eating away at her until all that will be left is a crumbling… Continue reading Dust to Dust

She Cries

I see you take a good look as she walks through the door.  You’re surprised to see her in here again, aren’t you.  After what happened. As she makes her way up to the bar she can feel the eyes on her.  Nobody can believe that she’s really here.  They never thought she’d have the… Continue reading She Cries

Nobody Knows

They all think it’s a laugh, the way I feel about you.  They ridicule me, deride my thoughts and emotions.  To them it’s all a game. They just don’t understand.  Or won’t.  I don’t know which it is.  You mean so much to me.  I can’t imagine my life without you. You’ve always been there… Continue reading Nobody Knows

The Mistake

She sat in the car staring blankly out at the world beyond the glass.  Tears trickle down her face as the radio gently murmured a sad song somewhere in the distance. He sat next to her, his face showing concern.  He longed to bring her body close against his and tell her that everything was… Continue reading The Mistake

The Look Of Love

He saw her sitting by the far corner table of the bar.  Normally surrounded by her friends, their laughter could be heard echoing round the room.  But tonight she was alone, and there was a strange, almost deathly silence.  It unnerved him slightly.  There was something wrong tonight, there had to be.  Why else would… Continue reading The Look Of Love