Heartbreak – Aly Writes

in my riverbed

after half a lifetime of breaking my own heart, I find
peace among the pieces cast away

Jellyfish

Now I’m a bag adrift in this never-ending sea
Trying to remember how it ever felt to breathe

The Forgotten Man

His hands won’t stop trembling. His breath puffs out in ragged clouds that swirl and fade away, dissolving like a memory.

Darkness Lingers

All the love I’ve experienced
Has felt like pain
Like a bolt of lightning
Through a warm spring rain

Though the Smoke May Lift

Tear down the four walls of this time-stopped room
and set me free.
Let flames lick clean the bones of what we knew,
and when there’s nothing left but this stabbing pain,
let me feel nothing.

Holding on to Happiness – Part Two

I’d like to say that I had some sort of epiphany that changed my life, but it wasn’t that specific. It was a gradual shift, a dawning awareness. . .

Holding on to Happiness – Part One

I turned back to see Dad, fallen, the waves pounding his back, pushing him over even as Mom struggled to pull him up. The next few minutes were a panicked blur of unrelenting surf that sent us staggering every time we thought we were gaining ground.

Renata Cries Again

Renata loved to be sad. She positively basked in melancholy, as only someone who has never experienced real sadness could. She loved a tragedy, and we all know there’s no shortage of them to shed a tear over.

Like an Eyelash in my Eye

Little star, nebulous
You stay far outside of my reach
Lofty and twinkling
You were the light of my dreams

Love is Just One Side of a Two-Faced Coin

Midweek, we’d steal moments between classes, adjourning to his office, door bolted, to debrief each other. We came close to getting caught more times than I can count, but people didn’t want to see what they didn’t want to see and so we carried on.