Untitled - by Lorraine Dudley

Read the pages, guess again
This book is for you my dear friend
Read about the mistakes I've made
and how I feel I have not yet been saved

Leave the door ajar behind you
So I can enter with my thoughts askew
Leave behind my entries to confuse you
Give you hope to hear from me soon

Time... Can't you speed up to slow down again

Here's my message, bright and true
In a world of hate I no longer had you
This is why you are reading this
Instead of re-assuring me with a kiss

The flame was extinguished long ago
How to light it I didn't know
On and on until the ink began to flow out of my veins
And to me it wasn't relief all I felt was pain

And all I write, I write for you
and what I write, I swear it's true
That I needed more to shed some tears
What I needed was to disappear



Under The Mask - by Rashauna Wilson

I am scared to say what I feel
I am scared to say what I think,
For the truth lies under the mask

I am ashamed to unleash my tears
I am cautious to let down my guard,
For my insecurities are under the mask

Everyday as I set out an outfit,
So do I my masks

Each day I walk new trails in life and embody the worlds cruelty

As the core of the earth is protected by it's outer shell
So is my life protected...

Under the mask



Back to the Earth - by Pamela Joseph

He had a plan,
To make a man,
It could think and speak,
It would have a free will.

It would be good,
It would be great,
It would be anything,
It wanted to be.

He tried and tried,
He cried and cried,
And then the day came,
The man was made.

Then He cried as they died,
As they fought and they killed,
Hurting each other while they hurt themselves.
And they fought and they killed,
Until there were no more,
And they had all returned,
Back to the earth.