For the past six months, I’ve been having to watch a family slowly disintegrate and severely upsetting a very precious child with their nepotism and rancor. I’ve taken care of and watched over this little girl since she was a baby. She is now almost three years old, but even at that age they are affected deeply. She is a very intelligent and sweet, but devious child. However, her mother is being frivolous and completely manipulative. She wants to take away any chance of the child being with the father, who she loves to pieces and happens to be those rare fathers that care very […]
Senium Cassus
Senium Cassus
I'm 24 yrs. old and am in college. I have two degree's already and am going for another one before going to medical school. I've traveled throughout the world since I was a child. I've seen, done, and experienced many things. Most people would guess that I had a 'happy' childhood due to my traveling, but not everything was 'perfect'. One of my favorite poems, which best describes what I mean: WE wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, while We wear the mask. We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask! Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Empty. Cold. Hollow. Alone.
I walk past cracked walls
That bleed crystal tears.
Vines that twist with thorns,
Shaped by the icy winds promise,
A false comfort of numbness.
Dust and dead leaves dance in silence
Ahead as my blood pumps a rhythm hard and fast.
Silent screams echoing, reverberating past,
And a cold sweat pours down my neck.
Rusty metal arms, silhouettes, seek – surround me
I run with fervor from shadowy cages of memories past.
Footfalls echo the frenzied beating of my heart.
Walls release cruel laughter and old screams.
I crash.
The Earth shatters into glass,
Walls crumble into sand,
Spiraling into a vortex of shard and […]
I survived another day,
Empty and alone.
No one noticing anything different
As I walk through my motions.
I laugh and cry
When I’m suppose to;
Wearing my multitude of masks
Day by day smiling that smile again.
A pretty little hollow doll that seems real.
All the world is a stage and
The curtain rises with the spotlight hitting me.
I know just the right words to say
In order to survive another day on this stage.
The words required to stay sane and save face,
In a world I don’t feel like I belong.
Always playing my part well without fail.
However, when the curtain closes for […]