Writing

They all looked at each other Iker was getting cocky for her discovery. 

Ezra packed her spray paints already, and her black gloves had teal and pink stains. 

Everyone's playing Christmas music

Christmas movies

break is in two weeks

we're already preparing our favorite meals.

And I'm lost.

Not good lost,

not lost in the holiday cheer -

I'm just depressed.

There is five syllab

els in this haiku yup yup

Seven in the last

“I hate you” Neo choked “mother should too. But she doesn’t” he gasped for air. Unable to breathe “I don’t understand that” 

His father looked down “because she knows—“ 

Ten years later. present day November 6th 2026

Neo stepped into the kitchen, just turned thirteen. His mother was drinking her coffee, looking at the door.

“Mother, give up. Soon isn’t a time. It never was” 

I know you still think of her

When it’s late at night 

And memories fall out of your eyelids and down your cheek

I would too, if I had known her