Submissions by SydneyMartin

The water was on fire. My need for honesty after midnight grows with each tick of your watch. I want you to know that each time you go hunting you make the willow tree weep. It weeps in the silence once the ringing disappears. I will put flowers in the barrel of your gun and hope that one day you will choose to watch the flowers die instead of something that breathes the same air we do.

I wish the spider would tell the fly that it is beautiful, But this is not the way the world works. The world runs on mistakes and death. But death cannot happen without life. Please breathe while...

I remember a time when i was truly happy. When a smile nearly broke my face. I carried around a wind chime during the day and a glass bottle at night. I lived in a kingdom where nobody died. It was beautiful there. I laughed until the sun melted me and apples tasted like candy bars.

Then the earth tilted and everything burned.

The fire had started from a single flame held under tin foil. The fire spread quickly through my life and soon everything around me was charcoal. I tried drawing with it but it stained my hands.

It’s been three months. I have ash in my...