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Poems for National Poetry Writing Month ...

my poems ^_^

I have no idea where this poem came from; it popped into my head in sentence fragments and discontiguous scenes and then everything connected together all at once. Mature for depression/suicide theme.

Imagine being stuck in a home where all your parents seem to do is argue. For Xavier, that was life. Learn about the events near the end of his parents relationship that causes Xavier to become 'a problem child'.

Frightened by his parents arguing Xavier commonly escapes and find himself at his friend Kade's house.

These are a few poems I wrote a few years ago.

Nathan is utterly smitten with gorgeous first year art student Sam, but Sam has a secret that may ruin any ambitions either of them have of a relationship with each other.

This story is autobiographical in nature, but I have made some modifications to protect the identities of those included in it. All the names have been changed, and in some cases things such as gender, locations, and sometimes familial compositions have been altered.

All that being said, this is MY truth, and it's time I released it so that I'm free to create from a place other than brokenness and sadness.

This will be dark, but there are spots of light in the great black. No void is truly empty when one gazes into it. The light from our eyes illuminates more than we realize.

~Samuel

Gary's best friend, Jace, has just been dumped by someone he really cared for. While trying to console him, will sympathy be confused with something else? Or is a hug all that is needed to get through the night?

Submitted for the "Good intentions" Anthology.

'What do you want?' A wish reluctantly made, urged on by his little girl, brings Gavin something unexpected.

When Sam comes home from a business trip and finds the house half-empty, he is forced to face the truth he ignored for too long.