By Natalie Borenstein Beleaguered, I lie entrenched in this state- A state of constant denouement, Bound by ties of fate. One ability I...

By Monica Mills Where there is desperation, a keen urgency to flee, A listless hum of purpose that doesn’t apply Escape is an immutable...

By Randall Moss Four years to get a degree I thought would make me feel special. Four years, for me to realize that I am black and...

By Jo Boustead I read the cards long ago, my fate was sealed with champagne and bones. A dance with the Devil, wicked but sweet, alone in...

By Holly Allen He is a fire. You are paper, melting from the heat. He is a lion, And you are a gazelle caught in his teeth. He is a gun...

By Cemile Kabadayi To the thug, the creep, the criminal You who has to sneak in the shadows of night, Your life of deceit is subliminal,...

By Zaphkiel I Think of Thee when sick is in the air, Vile rings of vomit that glare Through the purity of the breeze, I Think of Thee...

By Suhani Khosla before, when you cut me to pieces, red dripped past the seams that had burst open revealing lacerated veins and a...

By Kayla Long Society’s Rejected ones Unfit for a world of carbon copy clones Tossed aside to wilt and die Who dictates who is given...

By Bear Houston Every day I wake and my addiction decides How it will live today and shorten my strides It’s a fickle thing aspersion,...

By Hannah Sutherland Soap suds and lukewarm water, bubbling beneath soaking dishes as I clean. Mundane tasks to block out the pain of you...

By Sara Louise Wheeler I forgot how afternoons could be simple and peaceful, and how to lose myself in the murmur of the tide; how life...

By Carly Stewart Dear love, why do we persist in wearing these Janus masks? And continue to play these exquisitely beautiful games of...

By C. Locke There is no light behind closed eyelids when acid tears burn trenches in her sunken cheeks and the lullaby of a dead girl...

By Nouri Artificial and benign, No ordinary creature took grasp of my mind. Right, Left, Up, Down, carving through my insides, the...

By Tick Rowley Falling through the funnel I found myself dangling by a thread, suspended in mid-air, surrounded by the dark. In one swift...

'Slowly Lose My Mind' by Missie Biellie-Dee ~ Miss Purple Heart The sun shines brightly, As I slowly lose my mind, Time flies by, As I...

By Martha Clarke When I looked in the mirror, I saw him and I jumped. He wrapped his broad fingers around my neck and against the wall my...

By Phoebe Elms Red billows seep on the water’s surface, Cuts to my veins to symbolise the pain, My way of coping in this hell’s furnace....

By Thomas Ryan Lloyd Stare, Colder than the winter pavement You sit Cup of coins half empty, Symptom of a contactless world. Overcast,...