The boys with stars on their faces

Someday time will stop

Abruptly at that,

And he’ll come for me

The boy with stars on his face 

He lives in my mind, and I find him alive in my dreams

My dreams where his makeup is off, his skin is tan, and stars are scattered every which way, dotted along his face 

Boys like that mustn’t be real and if I see one, he must be a hologram,

Because I am an atheist 

And boys like that are heaven sent

raincity

NY

16 years old

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  • moonstruck

    this night 

    the light is a milky, silvery blue 

    cascading down from the sky

    in rays that look like liquid silk

    dripping off tree branches 

    and coating the world in a cool, heavenly glow 

  • the lover

    love cannot be created or destroyed.

     

    like energy 

    it shape shifts

    following those filled with passion

    and hope

     

    but appearing to leave 

    at the slightest touch of pain

  • sophomore

    She wakes in the early morning

    And stares at the wall across from her 

    A sense of fear overtakes her

    Beginning in the pit of her stomach

    And spreading to each limb

    Coating her in feeling