• Daily Prompt: Exciting Times

    Tell us about the last thing you got excited about. Before today, it was attending my first Leicester City Football Club game of the season last week. Going to a match is always exciting, even when the team isn’t doing well, because anything can happen. But we’re in good form at the moment, so there

  • Illusions

    If I come to you now And tell you I love you, Will you turn away saying You do not know what that is? You have played creator With my unfeeling heart, Bringing back to life That which I thought dead. Your magic has extracted tears From this rock within me. Oh sorcerer, will you

  • Faith Well

    Faith is a bottomless well of hope An ever-giving source of strength A quencher of the thirst in our souls A receptacle for all our pleas Yes, sometimes its water feels out of reach But however far away it seems We always have the rope of prayer And the bucket of our cupped hands Ready

  • Bullies

    I should have cried I should have cried But instead, I slowly died When I held those Toxic tears inside Buried them deep No strength or pride And smothered my pain With a smile smiled extra wide But brave is what I had to be Because I could not let you know Nor could I

  • Fool

    Here I sit Like a fool With those three words On the tip of my tongue How long before Those words tumble out? How long before You release them too? How long before I Again learn the lesson, Whether spoken or hidden, They will only ever be hollow?