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A young writer off the coast.
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Challenge of the Week CCXXIV
You've checked out, had enough, are unplugging for a year, and heading off into a nice place in the woods with enough supplies to write the novel you've always wanted to, and to be alone. You've decided to email yourself a paragraph to copy/paste for all the texts you're about to send to your people before you drive off. What do you say? 25 dollars to the top recluse. Winner will be judged by likes.
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I’m Sorry

Those words probably don't mean anything anymore. I know I've said the same thing hundreds of times. I know I'm being a huge asshole saying this again. But I'm truly sorry. This time I'm serious, or at least as serious as a coward can be. You're right if you think I'm running away after today. I've only known to run my entire life; I am scared of confrontation after all. I wish I could say this to your face, all of my feelings and all of my heart but I just can't do that. It's okay if you hate me after this, if you want to strangle me or hope for my death. I understand. I've just had enough of everything. Work, life, relationships, it's all too much for me. It feels like I'm in a daze, or the butt of the punchline to some joke that a god, or maybe God himself, made just for me. I've tried to make things better. But now I'm just tired.

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Challenge of the Month XXXIX
Write a short poem about your own private Hell. The tortured who reigns gets 100 big ones. Winner will be picked by Prose. Go.
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Saving Face

I have fallen from grace

And now I'm tumbling into a crippling chasm

I had forgotten to pay Life her due ransom

So now I surrender, letting the Devil give chase

Transforming my false smile into real grimace

And now only devils see me now

They gaze at my terrible show

A theatre of actors who share the same stage

But Comedy and Tragedy look away

There is no beauty, only a hopeless gray

The choir from behind the curtain

Begins to sing a horrible tune of sin

A cavalcade of nonsensical rhymes

Cacophonies of well-intentioned lies

That never seemed to bear any fruit, only flies

Desperate wanderers who bear witness

Show me a glimpse of my bygone business

A malleable mess that used a thousand masks

My reflection revolts, shuddering, it asks

"When will it stop? When is the final act?"

And I try to answer back in turn

But like a lover who only gets burned

My throat starts to ache, and words start to fail

Thus, I start to lie, and my reflection begins to bail

Knowing that my being already had had its final nail

And so I lie there in the dark, with unfit eyes

Inside a tomb made up of deceit and lies

Surrounded by formless faces and disgrace

I surrender myself, knowing my rightful fate

Knowing that I was but a dream, a mimic, a trace

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