Submissions by Thesilverymoon (Lauren Brenner)

Pigs are fat and fathomless
Pigs are fancy free
Pigs are faithful to the end
They’d walk the earth for me

Pigs are great adventurers
Pigs are clever friends
Pigs won’t laugh behind your back
Or careless condescend

Pigs are strong and self assured
Pigs don’t often cry
Pigs are honest to the end
They never, never lie

Pigs are pink and passionate
Pigs are smooth as ice
Pigs are boundless happiness
They dance the march of life

For D

There are some things I want to say to you
Just, you know, a few things.
Not many.

I can’t say any of them
Out loud
To anyone
Not yet, anyway.

Secrets
That should be kept
Out of mind
Out of sight

Else they become evidence
Of my betrayal

Tonight I am safe
I own these thoughts
No one can censor them
No one can judge me
No one can take the words

Off
This
Page

So I’m telling this keyboard
And this screen
And this empty room ...