NPM 30 Day Challenge: Day 27

creeping shadows dwell
     night street
          in darkness muted

lamplight
     safety glows

© Wondra Vanian 2012

NPM 30 Day Challenge: Day 26

screaming out loud
     in silence

prisoner to my mind
     trapped within

in a living corpse
     dead and dying

raging against the life
     destroying me

© Wondra Vanian 2012

NPM 30 Day Challenge: Day 25

black
blackness                    sightless
dark
darkness                     fearful

black
blackness
                                   I am sightless.

dark
darkness
                                  I am fearful.

blood
bloody
                                  I am bleeding.

dead
deadly
                                  I am Death.

© Wondra Vanian 2012

NPM 30 Day Challenge: Day 14

alone, apart, outside

last to be picked
     lonely

on the outside
     alone

no one to love
     loved by no one

ever alone, apart, outside

© Wondra Vanian 2012

NPM 30 Day Challenge: Day 13

fear is a cancer
destroying from the inside out
      growing
          leaching
               attacking
                    spreading
until it consumes every cell of your being

© Wondra Vanian 2012

NPM 30 Day Challenge: Day 12

at night, the world is hushed
sleeping children
whispering lovers

the dark makes us all creep
silently rushing
carefully tiptoeing

is it the hard working fathers
we fear to wake?

or is it the red eyed monster
who lurks in shadow?

© Wondra Vanian 2012

NPM 30 Day Challenge: Day 5

I wear a mask.

When I am with you, I wear a mask of comfort
to boost your spirits,
to ease your pain.

When I am with her, I wear a mask of scorn
to mock the weak,
to ridicule the poor.

When I am with him, I wear a mask of mirth
to play children's games,
to laugh in the sun.

When I am alone, I wear no mask at all.
I am no one.
I am nothing.

I wear a mask.

©Wondra Vanian 2012