we leave daggers in souls

we give up our names to others to use with love or contempt we give up our age to assumptions created by people other than us on how not to behave we sell our bodies to the media sculptors and our speech to the common voice of the nation   we give up our emotions …

dying dreams

Write a response less than 750 words based on the following sentence: You look into the mirror, only to see that it isn’t your reflection staring back at you, but... You look into the mirror only to see that it isn't your reflection staring back at you, but all your broken dreams and shattered hopes. …

you and i

You and I We lack that connection Where all we do is try to Pretend we understand Pretend that we empathise When we're standing On lava that burns through Our thoughts All I know is that We say things That doesn’t change a thing We share laughs That become buried When the lightening bolt strikes …

someplace silent

sometimes you feel so lost  even when there's a map at hand and the path you're supposed to be treading signposted so clearly but sometimes we become weary travellers looking for someplace safe  to rest  and someplace silent  to hide  away from the claws  of life.

tell me who cares

every time i hear the words fire into my heart i feel the same way but i guess you do too we're all at war with ourselves torn apart  between moulding ourselves into societies hands or swimming against the tide of what everyone else wants us to be there's no peace only noise so much …

broken

my heart breaks for all the things we refuse  to acknowledge  and all the lies we learn to believe  my heart  it slowly cracks  as i stand alone  with broken souls watching this make believe world where everything is  fine break down shattered illusions oh how it mirrors our broken homes and broken lives  we're …

be a

​be a princess who knows how to be elegant  but also a princess that knows how to walk around in scuffled shoes, and messy hair, a princess that doesn't hide behind flowers or etiquette - and a princess that isn't afraid to be known as  the princess who doesn't fit amongst the palace garden roses  …

launch of beautiful is tag

We often feel ugly.  Because we're too diverse, too unique, too incredible to be conformed to societies constructions of beautiful.  And it shouldn't be that way. We shouldn't feel ugly about who we are as an individual.  We shouldn't identify as ugly because we aren't a mirror reflection of social norm.  We shouldn't try to …

i can only hope

this one's dedicated to all the people with beautiful hearts that go unnoticed by society but you don't realise just how much you make me smile and just how much the memories mean to me. you're not just another somebody i met you're someone special someone with a beautiful beautiful heart that's overflowing with vibrant …

blanks

it hits home when you run out of words  to mirror the whirlpool  contained within your mind;  it kinda feels hollow because you're so used to  emptying your soul  through twenty six letters  stringed so asthetically together  that it doesn't begin to paint  an accurate picture of our turmoils oh it's an ebbing wave  when …