Lifeless Window

Charcoal eyes

Ink wet heart

White stretched smile

Stares in the dark

Heartbeat slows

Breathing thins

Soulless window

Let them in

A knock at your door

A tap to your thigh

Let them realize

You will not lie

Trapped for good

Locked in a cage

Your life mimics

The sins that you laid

A Shortwrite

She had herself dart into the endless bushes of roses feeling each bite of their thorns tear across her skin and tug on her clothes. There was no choice. She had been stuck in the maze of roses for days now. The only thing left for her to do was to try to break through the rose petaled walls.