I don't know how to feel I'm leaving in under a month What will happen? Welp, I guess i'll find out

Looking through the painted white doorway  There are pastel purple walls covered in art and posters  Piles of books standing tall like the queens guards Waiting for me to open and read  The queen sized bed  In the middle of the room  Unmade and covers throw about  Waiting to welcome me home  TJ Maxx bags... Continue Reading →

You have become the cardinal  The cardinal you love so much  You took their photos  And framed them in your house  Had statues of them littered about  Their red fuzzy heads are now yours  And Nanas brown head follows yours You will never separate  The things you love most are now one  You and Nana... Continue Reading →

You have to be skinny But not too skinny  Guys like a girl with a little meat on the bone Be smart But play dumb  Guys don’t want a girl that is smarter than him  Cover up  And don’t be a tease  If you don’t want sex then your a prude But if you have... Continue Reading →

I am a girl  I like guys that are way out of my league  And the guys that like me  I like to think I’m out of their league  What if I go for a gamer?  Well who's going to pull him off of his game to take one look at me  What about an... Continue Reading →

They live on a land Locked away from the sea Hearing stories of seafoam storms  Bringing terror  But that isn’t for them So oceans are simply just that A story, At least to them To them those greens and blues  Are of soft leaves and loud birds Things that rest upon the ground before them... Continue Reading →

I stare at the small round table  Cloths so white and pure  I see glimmers of you sitting there They fade to quick The glasses are inverted  No more champagne and no more toasts are to be made  I place the single rose  Tied together with a ribbon as red as blood Next comes the... Continue Reading →

Running across the finish line rope  Glimmers of joy are shared in their eyes The little boy cheers  Arms raised in the air Smiles like that of the Cheshire cat  Other women fall behind  The code of conduct set for her laying shattered on the grass  Picking the boy up to give all her love ... Continue Reading →

Two women sit at a corner table at a restaurant in the middle of nowhere One gets up and leaves well; the other stays there mascara running down her face   Dust collecting on her pinned-up hair Frozen in time There she sits, never aging  She haunts the small restaurant  Her clothes are off-trend Rumors fly... Continue Reading →

I am... Not the apology that people will wait for forever  The bright highlighter on the stark white pages  A clutter of bookmarks hastily shoved in a mug to try and create organization The uncommon color of rose waiting to be picked I am Brooke Johnson