Which may it be?

It will set you free

And hold you close

Reveal what you care for the most.

It can be a sweet release

Of endless peace.

But can devour as a reckless beast.

Some seek it out,

Others fear.

But it will happen to all far and near.

Is it’s embrace warm or cold?

It distinguishes not between youth and old.

Makes some cry

Others release a breath.

Am I addressing love or death?

Writing Prompt: Death Detective

You move into a new apartment only to find weird cryptic writing scrawled on the walls and the smell of smoke perpetually lilting through the place. Turns out the flat is haunted by the ghost of a detective who died before he could solve his case. So, in order to get rid of him, you agree to help him out and fulfill his last wishes.

Attention

Pay attention to the soul in the corner,

And the person when the joke cuts too deep.

To those who text you late at night,

For they’ve never been good as sleep.

Pay close attention,

To the third friend on the walk,

For when path grows too narrow,

And leaves only room for two to talk.

Pay close attention to

The misfits

The thirdwheels

The nobodies

The weirdos

The lonely

The freaks

Pay close attention,

Open your eyes and see,

For such are these people,

They were once were you & me.

Writing Prompt: School of Crime

Your parents are dead and you are sent to live with your grandparents when you are a young age. They’re nice enough but they are rather… Peculiar. Nonethless they have a hand in your raising and eventually when you reach middle school age, tell you that they’ve picked a special school for you to attend in your high school years. You don’t give it a second thought until they hand you a pamphlet titled:

“School of crime & thievery”

Turns out your grandparents used to attend said school and wish to send you where you have a choice to major in various classes, the options being:

Thief

Assassin

Pirate

Renegade

Mercenary

Conman

Blue

The color of wind swirling in the fall.

The color of the feeling of an unanswered call.

The colors of droplets swimming down a pane.

The color of the night when it’s driving you insane.

An angry ocean, whose waves curl.

The cold wind in a flag as you watch it unfurl.

The color of that heavy weight in your chest.

When things don’t work out, though you gave it your best.

The color you feel when your finger tips are cold.

The color you touch when your soul becomes old.

The color that surrounds you as you’re falling in a dream.

The color that you exude when you’re torn at seams.

The color of water as it moves, always, always running.

The color you feel when you realize you don’t like what you’re becoming.

Forever

Forever is where friendships go to die,

Where birds lost in sunsets fly.

Where relationships that I did invest,

Found its place and decided to rest. Bonds of love that would break “never”.

So it’s hard to reply when people ask,

“Do you believe in forever?”

Is it a word we even understand?

Eternity stretching without an end?

But we reduce to symbol and word.

Forever reduced to a sound that can be heard.

Compacted into a nice small clause.

Ignoring the word keeps going without pause.

Do we really understand words like “love” and “never”?

Yet even less we understand words like “forever”.