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Midnight Isolation

by Maria F Rojas, 2024

Midnight Isolation 

I’m a girl.

I look at boys with eyes of passion, 

they, back with a prideful smirk. 

I want a brush of their touch and

submerge my pain into their arms.  

 

What a warmth he would bring to my life.

When I glance at him, I see a facade: 

6 ‘5, brown eyes, brown fluffy hair, skinny, cross around his neck. 

Knowing so much yet nothing from a stranger’s sight. 

Wishing to know, 

what his insides look like

divergent from the external. 

His beauty deceives.

Trips my eyes to look where I should not, 

the places I have gotten lost before, 

and still have not recovered the pieces of my lost, broken soul. 

 

The darkness of the night camouflages my love for him.

 

He, lost in motion,

I, found. 

My lovely distant distraction, 

glances at the ticking clock.

Is he waiting for me?

Ten feet from me, but I know his cologne, 

*Versace Eros.

 

Missing my chaos while focusing on my glimmering sun. 

 

Planning the perfect interaction, 

never having the courage to speak.

My mouth wants to kiss, but my mind is overwhelmed by his sight.

I freeze looking at him. 

body function is none

 

My pulse increases, my head starts to spin. 

I could pause life for him. 

Is he just in my mind? 

 

Glitches of reality and my fantasy start to synchronize,

I can’t tell the difference. 

What a joke am I.

 

I lose control over my body,

sweating and 

trembling

as he walks towards me.

 

“Is he ignoring me?”

 

He gets closer to me as the train approaches the station. 

“The midnight train,” 

the last one for the night. 

My train. 

He gets on.

I watch the doors close with him behind, 

I, left alone in the station 

dreaming of his touch.

 

What was his name?

Failure or Future?

by Julianna Ladani, 2024

So much to do, so much to see

I want to choose the thing that’s right for me.

I want to be happy and make myself proud,

but I fear I will be letting them all down.

Will I rise above and soar to great heights,

or will I plummet and fall, leaving me affright?

I wish it all would become so clear,

so I can take a risk; a chance without any fears.

Yet still I do not know what the future holds,

Truthfully I won’t know until it all unfolds.

There are so many things to choose from, that I know for sure,

But choose the wrong thing, and experience a never ending loop with no cure.

I hope to prosper and choose the right path,

so I won’t have to be stuck, living a life of tragic aftermath.

So much to do, so much to see

I want to choose the thing that’s right for me.

Though it’s clear I won’t know any sooner,

I want to just live a happy life with a very bright future.

 

 

Aging

by Charlotte Heotis, edited by PM Heotis, 2024

My gait has changed

My hair has too

Sometimes I find it hard to chew

I do not know the things I knew

but I can add a thing or two

I’m still a loving friend to you!

My Home

by Michael Sacino, 2024

“My Home”

My home is familiar and cozy. The warm feeling of it makes me feel relaxed like laying in the beach in the Summer.

My home has a beautiful backyard with bright, green grass and tall, healthy trees.  It’s my favorite place to play with my dogs.

My favorite part of my home is the living room. It’s so comfy that it feels like it’s calling my name.  The room is so big I can even play soccer in it.

My home is a safe and warm place where my parents, sister, and dogs live too.  It would not feel like home without them.

Been there a long time!

by Alison Quinn, 2024

Candies pocketed,

old chocolates melted flat,

now like dry mud scales,

the sweetness cold and gone.

 

Does the thrill of remembrance

satisfy like creamy satiation,

or disappear in the tasting,

deflated by swift gluttony?

 

Oh, have just one old piece.

Reawaken the craving in you,

Yearn and satiate fully clear.

Surprise!  Taste again.

Disguise

by Taylor Vertucci, 2024

Under the guise of searching,

a soul shatters,

a mind maneuvers.

It appears self-seeking, but it’s seeking self.

I’m sorry never illuminates

the path to feel whole.

Love, you are enough

to quell the rifling.

A flair of paucity halts the course,

doubling secrets under slipshod lips,

shrouding the truth from desperate eyes.

Life plods on,

and with the empty ache ostensibly filled,

the helm is released.

Puzzle piece

Anonymous, 2024

My life shattered into a million pieces, the day you died.

Like a brand new puzzle you dumped on the kitchen table; pieces everywhere.

Have you ever tried putting a puzzle together with gloves on? Blindfolded?

As the months would pass, I would start to have clusters of pieces connected.

Almost able to see my life again.

My life with you still in it.

My life before you took your last breath.

CRASH. BAM. BOOM.

A holiday.

A birthday.

A random Tuesday.

The days I missed you a little extra.

My little clusters would shatter again.

I was no longer able to see my old life again.

The puzzle pieces were scattered on the table.

How do I get back to my old life?

Can I?

I was trying to piece together something that will never be the same.

I will always be missing one piece to my puzzle; to my life.

You.

I must take those millions of pieces and start something new.

The gloves come off.

The blindfold is lifted.

I needed to start living my life without you.

We will not be creating memories.

You are now a memory.

My life looks different now.

I put the puzzle back in the box and open a new one.

The pieces are cut the same way.

They fit together the same way.

The clusters start to connect.

This isn’t the puzzle I wanted to put together.

But this is my life now.

This puzzle is for you to see.

To be proud of.

RIP Dad. Forever missed.

Just Asking

by Charlotte Heotis, edited by PM Heotis, 2024

Who set this universe in motion
Filled the seas and the ocean
Mounted up the lofty hills
Then bathed them with cascading rills
Laid out vast arid places
Too, desolate for human races
And capped it all with one great dome
With clouds and stars to roam
A sun to warm and brighten all
Then rotated—the night to fall
Beneath a place we call home
With winds that sometimes gently blow
The good the bad both ebb and flow
What purpose this we’d love to know
Is it a figment, but of time
Or a losing-finding of the mind

Magic

by Adam D. Fisher, 2023

You say you want magic?

Well I’ll show you magic. 

All you need to do is stop,

pay attention, look carefully,

closely to sunflowers with their 

bright yellow petals and, looking

even closer (no magnifying glass

needed), see the tiny vein 

down the middle. 

When you pull out dandelions, 

notice their strong central root, 

the lovely yellow flower. 

How’s that for magic?

April 11th, 2023

Anonymous, 2023

I am just a child who wants to be held
I am just a child who wants to be held
I am just a child who wants to be held
But no one’s ever wanted to hold me
But no one’s ever wanted to hold me
But no one’s ever wanted to hold me
But no one’s ever wanted to hold me
But no one’s ever wanted to hold me