LadyMidnight

Eyes like liquid glass
Ruby lips curled skyward
Skin on fire
Molding and making herself
Into something new.
A candle with too much oxygen
Burning brightly
Until there is nothing but ashes.
Grey cold ashes

I will never be in the army.
I could never die for my country.
I would step away from the bullets streaming toward our politicians.
I don't believe in war.
I know that it exists, but I refuse to support it.

I am bleeding words
That have been trapped up inside of me 
Stuck in the darkness
Of pulsing red veins cycling through my heart.
My blood is full of black ink
Mixed together in a puddle of misunderstanding

We are all alone.
We all fight the tides of loneliness 
But are swept away by the roaring ocean.
Our hair is full of salty waves
And our screams are smotherd
Before they matter
And we feel all alone

Sometimes I just stare at the sky
And wonder what’s out there.
Humans are enclosed in a small bubble we call the atmosphere
But outside of it is a great expanse of space waiting to be explored
To be mapped
To be found.

I feel at home when I am lying in bed
The clack clack of computer keys tripping above me.
The wind blows softly over my wooden roof
And muffles my step-dad and mom's quiet voices.