Downed in madness Her voice echoes in the abysmal darkness She peers warily around the corners Her ominous presence is pure torture Is this real pain? Or is it all in my brain? The sinister smile Keep me up for a while Her vicious eyes devour me Making me see A distorted reality Forging…
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Archived: Drugs — Audry L. Terrazas (Senior)
I’ve been on these meds since I have been 10. They keep adding new drugs, And I feel like I’m at war with my own mind. It’s an arms race and I’m not winning. The bullets of downers and the bombs of uppers. Deadly ammunition for a sick brain. New pills for new unwanted emotions,…
Archived: The Artists— Zoe Coats (Freshman)
She saw the beauty in everything, the drop of light in a heart of blackness, the silver lining on every cloud. She strived to capture that beauty, to contain it, to hold it close. She aimed to shackle the ethereal beauty to the chaos of this world. She tried to own it, make it hers,…
Archived: Malfunction — Adison Linder (Freshmen)
There’s something wrong A disconnect between body and mind Severed spine Too much time Has passed and irreversible changes Have been dealt and for these there is no help There’s a frayed wire Catching fire Fiber optics curling and twisting under the pressure Toxic plastic fumes rising up to the brain Smoke detectors blare Systems…
Archived: The Big C— Destiny Fay (Senior)
“You have cancer.” Three words that I never thought I would hear. Hearing those three words made me feel silly that 3 years ago I was afraid of the three words “I love you”. Yet, three years ago, I was a junior in college still undecided and trying to figure out how I was going…
Archived: The Artists— Zoe Coats (Freshman)
She saw the beauty in everything, the drop of light in a heart of blackness, the silver lining on every cloud. She strived to capture that beauty, to contain it, to hold it close. She aimed to shackle the ethereal beauty to the chaos of this world. She tried to own it, make it hers,…
Archived: The Raven — Liam S. (Freshmen)
Black as night, Arms spread wide, Open wings take flight, Sharp claws, Blackened beak, Empty stomach, Searching for something more in life, Something more filling, Someone to hold, to be held, The Raven crows loudly, As if to say goodbye, It plunged off the edge, And began to fly…
Archived: The Nineteenth Alice— Adison Linder (Freshman)
Once upon a time, in a vast abyss, there was a dream. It was a small, insignificant dream, so much that the other dreams inhabiting the void ignored it completely. Nobody bothered to ask who dreamed it, or what it was. The tiny dream in question floated aimlessly in the corporeal darkness. It noticed as…
Archived: Summer Snow — Rogelio Dominguez (Senior)
It leaks without a drip, And flows without a flow, This feeling in my chest feels like summer snow, It seems to end, But comes and goes, It feels like the sun, But never shows, It feels like steel, Left out in the snow, And like rain, On a dry day, Eroding my heart, ‘til…