Writing Sample 7

Playfully You Dance

Playfully you dance upon my lips,
Tease the corners to separation,
Lightly ease them apart with your ballerina ways.
Force them, gently, with those pointed toes
To bubbly spill.

My soul longs to leak out,
Yet is suppressed
By your gay waltz of
Eternal joy.

You,
Are a liar.

A snake that laughs at the darkness
Which clouds my eyes,
That bursts out the sunshine, which no longer glows.

I can’t handle the burden of this heavy mask.
Layers of wasted, worthless grins
That suffocate,
That hold me under pounding waves
As my head grinds into the sand.

How do you churn from me the purity I know was once lost?
Permanently,
Genuinely,
You crease and indent;
Exploding precious pink butterflies through the dry, caked cracks.
Fluttering away my mask
And establishing glistening memorials
In our never-ending field of daisies.





The rain, thick in the heavy air, falls gloomy and silent until shattering upon the soggy ground. A girl splashes through the waterlogged grass towards the overflowing gutter. She squats in the lonesome street as she gazes into the broken reflection, her rubbery red boots drowning out all the grayness around her. With the sky beneath her she glances up uncertainly, just checking, just making sure. A steady river begins off the pink tip of her nose, piercing the wobbly mirror below. Arms up, eyes squeezed shut, she begins to twirl. Spinning freely, solitarily, in the street. She kisses the rain. Drunk off the purity, she stops; full sunshine smile.



[technically this week i cheated and sent in old stuff i wrote in high school... ha ha]