Slumber

A heavy hand fell on her shoulder, and Amaris turned at the touch, her curtain of midnight tresses parting down the center to reveal a haunting pair of crystal eyes, glimmering like diamonds in the candlelight; it was Sleep, her nemesis. Though she fought his gentle...

Smashing Pomegranates

Smashing Pomegranates   sometimes life feels like a betting game. fast paced, cut low, cards reshuffled, every day. a dance of fate and false control, where the stakes are high and sentiments slim, as buyers wait for the gun to blow.   I think about this as...

For Ophelia

There once was a maiden  Unhindered and pure  A willow that danced  With an angel’s allure   Yet for all of her beauty  And fairness and light  Ophelia wandered  The darkest of nights    She swam with a madman Through current and dune Til’ one day, her...

Just the Very Same

A warm, evening wind, kisses my tired, rosy face I exhale, at once content and overcome with remembrance of the sun, who once loved me, kissed me, just the very same   the page beneath my lonely hand flutters, alive with possibility, and Orion, the other lover,...