Dark Things

She stared the dark thing in the face and felt that she had found a friend.

She walked into its thick embrace and never came back out again.

So pay attention as you go.  The dark things are not far behind.

If you pause and say hello, you never know what you may find.

by Kim YunHee

Suspended In Belief

I tell them all that I am not waiting,
But I am always waiting;
Every second suspended in belief.
Every second another fall.

Allegorical Figure by Léon Jean Basile Perrault

Diagram

Tragedy

in the grayness of this day
reading our old emails.

i didn't make it up, that feeling of love.
you were willing to do anything for me.
i was nervous but falling so quickly.
you reassured me.
i believed in you.
we were everything.

and then without warning
the bottom dropped out from underneath
and sent us spinning into the thinnest air.
you died inside before you hit the ground.
i went screaming, streaming tears behind me.
soon there was nothing left.

now there is nothing i can do
but sit and read emails.

in them, i can still hear your heart beat.

Silence, by Sam Weber

The Truth

I'm pretty sure I love you.
I know I did before.
Right up until the point when
My heart landed on the floor.
I know you didn't mean it.
You'd be stronger if you could.
I gave it back too soon.
I guess I misunderstood.

I'm pretty sure I love you,
but I don't remember why.
The boy I knew just disappeared
Without saying goodbye.
When he comes back,  please let me know.
I'd like to try again.
Maybe we can love each other
Like we did back then.

by SaMo

The Weather

Dearest,

A hailstorm came through today.  I watched as the sky grew dark and the wind started to whip the pines.  The chimes on the porch clanged a warning sound that rang lonely and shrill in the expectant hush.  The vibrations of a distant roll of thunder reached my ear drums, setting my skin a-tingling.  The air became green-grey, thickening like soup as I looked out the window.  And then it was upon us.  For a brief second I could hear the hailstones beating a quick march on the ground, coming quickly at the house, and then they were at the window, on the roof, skittering across the deck.  They were enthusiastic little things, dancing, bouncing, pinging all around.  Thunder rumbled right over me, lightning flickered, the wind blew as the trees shook off the attack.  Then it was gone.  As quickly as it had come, the storm moved on leaving silence and a brightening sky in its wake.  Small drifts of hailstones lay in a glistening carpet on the ground, casualties of their own violent ecstasy.

Another, different kind of storm also blew through today, though no one else took notice.  I'd watched the currents of my thoughts darkening and my emotions beginning to spin in a dangerous and irrational manner.  I thought of you so far away and my heart began to wail with an eerie intuition.  He has forgotten you, it cried, He no longer cares to hear your voice or see your words and soon enough you will see.  You will pull from him the truth and then you will be alone!  I was beaten with a million tiny doubts.  They pounded and skittered upon my hopes with devilish glee, and I prayed that you would tell me soon so I could finally surrender to the ice.  But then you said you loved me and the storm stopped.  The silence in my heart was immense.  I was left with the lifeless and swiftly melting debris of my insecurities. 

The weather these days, eh?  Changeable and strange.

Far Away

How is it possible to love someone so much from so far away?
My heart feels like it is stretching and straining to touch him.
I want to tell him all of this feeling; shower him with words while my fingers cannot reach.
Space is not the only distance, and so I bide,
But oh!  This heart of mine!
I feel it surging and tossing around in the confines of my rib-cage.
I pray that this captivity is temporary,
And that my passion won't be tamed by this necessary bridle.

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