Really just an amateur trying my hand at this.
He sat quietly, hardly noticing the scenes rushing past the window of the speeding train. He was one of many, like sardines, they rode, absorbed by their own thoughts. Their own troubles. Pondering their lives lived in this manner.
By Katie 3 years ago in Fiction
This struggle that rules me so, I give myself to it freely. It is what I desire, it is what I truly want. Yet.......I find,
By Katie 3 years ago in Poets
This dance of dances, we call life. Some, not all, dance easily. Their life flowing outward with abandon.
Standing at the window, the old man looked out at the rain. His thoughts, echoed the weather, dark and turbulent. On the couch lay his old uniform, pressed and ready.
The borderlands hadn’t been crossed in centuries. At least that was what everyone believed. All that had tried, had never returned to prove it was possible.
The silence was deafening, there was nothing more to be said. His time with this company had ended. Dumbfounded, he rose, turned, and left. Closing the door behind him quietly.
“Today’s the day, I swear. I’m going to do more than just smile at at her.” Every day it’s the same thing, she gets on at Elm street, we smile at each other, and that’s it.
Dear Sir, You disgusting pig. What foul stench permeates your soul. You and yours sweat corruption. Never, have I ever, witnessed such disregard for human life, sending our blood soaked billions just to hide your crimes,
I have never believed, not for one moment, that what they did to us was anything other than a test. “Who is this they?” you ask.
Brown humps on the hillside, the buffalo are laying down. Scattered about, they pass their days feeding and dozing. For years now, I’ve passed by them. A daily ritual of going and coming.
It isn’t really visible, to those around me. The casual observer might think I have it all figured out. That my life is an orderly progression of ease and simplicity.
The moment. That defining moment. That life defining moment. When things come into focus, and the world goes silent.
