❝A rose with thorns.❞ • • • ❝She slowly disappeared, Until she was left With the color of clear, No longer the boldest No longer red, Just another dead rose On the garden bed.❞ • • • 11/6/15 - 4/20/17 Highest ranking- #7 in poetry Rose. Copyright © 2015. All Rights Reserved.

There... There she sits on the wooden bench, scared to do life, scared to speak, scared to do her. There... There she swings, all by herself ready to se dètacher. What will she do? She'll open her arms, ready to catch faith, ready to welcome life with open arms. Ready to breakaway.

The Darkness Within is a poem about life and the hardships that all of us go through, sometimes in life we tend to hide things away rather than speak about them, and over time that builds up to a point where you slowly start to feel the darkness taking over from within, sometimes it feels overwhelming but the main message that this poem spreads is at that moment always remembering the reason you started this journey of life and the fact that you are never really alone.

Poems from the girl with the big bow or flower crown in her hair. The girl who reads in the corner. The one who giggles, laughs, and smiles. Poems from the heart.

Trapped. Surrounded on all sides by an overpowering barrier visible only to you. A barrier consisting of your thoughts, your dreams, your hopes, separating you from the rest of the world. Thoughts struggling to escape, the memories vivid in your head. You're trying to push back the flood of emotion, trying to break down that wall that's separating you from the judgement that awaits you at the other side. Your fears captivate you and morph you into a new person entirely. Surrounded on all sides and breaking into cold perspiration. Enveloping you is that same fear, gripping at your heart. You stand still hoping for the storm to back down, hoping for another chance. Sooner or later you're faced with reality and you'll know there's no turning back. All that remains is a whisper of silence.