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  Realization

  

  By Holocene, Sugar Land, TX

  I took what I saw in you and built gilded archways and skyscrapers until you were a huge, lit up building that held everything I’d ever dared to imagine and for a while it’s been easy easier than standing alone to look in your windows or open the door and see your raw truths ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  To A New year

  

  By Holocene, Sugar Land, TX

  all I know about life is that I am turning fifteen in six days and I am impossibly sadder than when I was thirteen all I know is the weather is getting colder and more bitter but not nearly as much as my heart that persists in beating all I know is that it's the 31st and tomorrow is an...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  A Rough Estimate is All I'm Asking For

  

  By Holocene, Sugar Land, TX

  I wonder just how long this can go on how many more bombshell days and silent, turbulent breakdowns both unseen and alone until I can no longer convince myself that “it will all be ok”? how many more papers marked up in red ink and cold shame overbearing teachers who’ve for...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  At the Gym

  

  By Holocene, Sugar Land, TX

  I remember right after you left I took to running In between the heavy pounding of my feet on burning rubber and my heart against wiry bones I thought maybe my thoughts could fly forward like my thumping feet and leave you behind, underneath my disappearing steps I thought maybe the ha...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Two Winters Ago

  

  By Holocene, Sugar Land, TX

  You breathed the breath out of my lungs and collapsed my already crumbling and feeble chest. Without touching you looked at me with eyes like night and knives until all that was left were ashes. My heart fought wildly against all the hopes and fears but in the end all that was left was a...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Strangers

  

  By Holocene, Sugar Land, TX

  The dimly lit hall is still. Muffled sounds come from inside the walls. Each closed door harbors a narrow rectangular window, offering covert peeks into the worlds inside. For a split second, it’s like the world has stopped. Almost as though some almighty God pushed the pause button in the middle ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Misplaced

  

  By Holocene, Sugar Land, TX

  Eyes averted, Darting Or lost in a better place Far from this Ocean stretched wide and unforgiving We swim And flail No light to illuminate Just walking blindly Into wall after wall Of darkened rooms Searching for meaning To this never-ending climb Flip the switch Only to find ...