thecoldembrace

        Sonja walked into the old storehouse, humbled with shoulders slumped. Outside, everyone was dancing in celebration of a life long-lived. Yet, none of them had lost like Sonja had lost. A guiding light was gone, cheery laughter and wizened tales of love and romance, gritty war and places and things long forgotten.        The girl closed the dirty old wooden door behind her, and walked forward and sat down at her favorite chair. A pale light shone through a lone window into the vast building with a sparkling of dust in the air. Sonja sat, in her black mourning dress not caring if the room left a mark on it, her green eyes scanning the

Ashes and legacy we are all meant to leave behind quailed in the pale moon memory in light aching to leave a trace cold are the stones carven granite trapping thought and deeds how enduring is, life how fragile is, love how hard is, death one glimpse and it's gone darkness taking its place leaving hallowed, memory its legacy in our hearts                                                                         Ashes and Legacy                                                                         By Aaron Prince

        Lightning split the darkened sky like roots from an invisible tree, crawling down across the horizon in brilliant flashes and murderous sound. The sky was cloudless, empty save for the bursts of light. Below the deafening roar and electric discharges was a rolling plain of grass that bent low as the wind whipped across the landscape. There were no trees for the lighting to reach for, only tall stalks of gray grass and a lone man. The man stood atop a lone hill his thick blue robes billowing about him in a frenzy, the same as his dark hair. His arms were high above his head as though he was reaching for the bursts of light, his v

War The crash of the bodies in wet soaked rain, To push on without a gain, Finishing each other seems such a shame, In this land where blood falls like rain, We still push on without a gain.

Our World Barren wastes dark swamps, teeming with life endless fields of emerald grasses forest of magnificent trees farmlands filled with rich harvests villages of proud, strong people this is our world.