Monday, May 11, 2015

Three Drafts

Acrostic
You’ve gotten better at masquerading your true feelings.
Only you know how it feels.
Under pressure to be perfect, but you know it’s impossible.
Life gets harder.
Life seems worthless now.

But it’s not just you.
Everyone knows that deep, sad feeling.

Over the years,
Killing yourself seems to be the only way to be happy and it’s not!
All you need to keep reminding yourself is,
You’ll Be Okay.


 Haiku
The sun has come out,
Temperature is rising,
Summer is coming!


Free-verse
Once I met this man,
With sparkling eyes that reminded me
Of the summer sunset reflecting off a lake.

This man also had a smile that reminded me
Of what the word ‘happiness’ meant.

Too bad that smile started to fade,
And so did my memory of happiness.

And as soon as his eyes cut me off,
My heartbeat cut off. But I knew I was
Forever falling into the lake.