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  Thrashing Flame

  

  By LaceyB, -, United States

  What do I do? Do I deserve this? Given all that I can stand I know it's trivial. But, even then It's up to them To see the rose inside the setting sun. Is it not the same? Shall I set the rose on fire? Let dance the thrashing flame? It's not real And yet it's mine. J...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Their Prey

  

  By LaceyB, -, United States

  Why must they show the sharp claws of deep anger and angst And it kills me to feel like I do every day Please take it away I’m tired Alone And Cold Carry me out of the abyss The cruel words sting like a million bees They tear me down like I’m nothing but prey Others lurk like hungry b...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Child of Heroes

  

  By LaceyB, -, United States

  “Hush, little baby, my sweet little baby girl. Mommy’s got you. I will never let you go. You’re my little angel baby.” She says, her voice as soothing as a breath of spring comforts the soft cries of a newborn baby. She slowly danced the baby around the room while humming the tune, You Ar...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  Bleed Goodbye

  

  By LaceyB, -, United States

  Hiding behind a sweet smile, baby Alone, so alone inside My heart breaks for you daily And it crumbles when I cry But, there you are, on the moon And, here I am in my own world Where I can always make you swoon Where I’m your kind of girl But, It’s her, It’s her, It’s her She�...
• Poetry > Ballad
  Ballad of Battle

  

  By LaceyB, -, United States

  Into the farthest of night Enlisted and readied to stand A conflict to forfeit or fight Blood on sabered hands Vehemence never to pauper Settled this impetuous province Bold and brass their falter Set forth this their pretense A point of origin withdrawn Opposite the spar to indict Ra...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  People Are Cruel

  

  By LaceyB, Fort Yates, ND

  When people listen to you It’s an honor When people understand what you’re saying It’s a blessing When people believe in you You know there’s hope But when people judge your appearance Everything is different People stop listening And you feel disgraced People don’t understand A...
• Poetry > Ballad
  Social Resistance (Different is Beautiful)

  

  By LaceyB, Fort Yates, ND

  (Verse 1) When I look around I see my future move And every girl has beauty, but one I look in the mirror in the silence of my room And see it’s me who is coming undone But I can’t give up now I know I’m not as spry as them But I gotta speak up, and be loud Let go of all the steam a...
• Poetry > Ballad
  I'm Not Cool

  

  By LaceyB, Fort Yates, ND

  Sometimes, all I can do is exist But I can’t rule with an iron fist! I can barely keep my head on straight Who knows, it might all just break I don’t know Should I break the code? And ruin my chance at a dream? I’m basically a star that doesn’t gleam I wish I knew the real me Becaus...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Breaking Point

  

  By LaceyB, Fort Yates, ND

  My name is Brier Draven, and my favorite place in the entire world is the one swing in my back yard. I sit and pump my legs back and forth until the world is moving up and down, blurring out of my vision. I sit on my swing when I get home from school, unless I have to go to the clinic. Last week I h...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Friend

  

  By LaceyB, Fort Yates, ND

  Above all the noises And my rush hour life There is one who stands sturdy Intelligence in her right hand And wisdom clenched in the other Through the hopelessness Her eyes remain ever watchful Steadfast and readied for anything Her morale is sheltered in maturity So free and still respons...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  A Missing Piece

  

  By LaceyB, Fort Yates, ND

  Why is it so difficult To keep my head held high? Why is it so hard To fit in with friends? I’m like a jigsaw puzzle piece My piece is different My corners are too sharp My sides are too broad I don’t fit within the puzzle Of my clique of friends Their puzzle is a portrait Of a laug...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  New Dawn

  

  By LaceyB, Fort Yates, ND

  The existence in which we relinquish The settlements of courageous outcome Loneliness was immense, until the new dawn All people should know The dank depths that are truths to all Withhold the dark pessimistic ways But know that truth is the prominent Like the trees in their domain Reach o...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Sense

  

  By LaceyB, Fort Yates, ND

  Beauty is dead to me The rose has lost its vibrant red A crack has formed in my path Senses are gone without me knowing Everything had wronged me Losing it all Breaking my terrible fall In and out, I try to breath I yelled at the mirror in my room Wishing to punch and shatter Shards of stu...
• Poetry > Ballad
  The Rejects

  

  By LaceyB, Fort Yates, ND

  She was evicted From every clique And every crowd She was convicted For being unique For being loud But still, she moves on The rejects are the beautiful...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Concrete

  

  By LaceyB, Fort Yates, ND

  I crept up on you And saw your child-like tears Slide down your rosy cheeks Drip drop and splash at your feet I managed a smile But your face is stone cold I hate those drops of salty crystals I want to your laughter to fill my heart But your voice is locked away I hate your silence of aba...
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  Gramma's Bird

  

  By LaceyB, -, United States