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Break your reader's heart in thirty words
Exclude any swearing and blasphemy and good luck!
Ended May 20, 2021 • 37 Entries • Created by HelenaTherese
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Alex.

That's what your name would have been.

It's on your birth certificate.

Our Alex: strong, smart, and kind.

The name engraved in gold

On a coffin far too small.

Foster Child

He held my hand and smiled sweetly

Talked to me cheerfully in slurred, halting sentences I couldn’t make out

And hugged people he did not know just to feel loved

Innocent

Wrongfully convicted of murder, Pete Coones spent 12 years behind bars until he was finally exonerated. Lacking quality health-care in prison, he died 108 days later from an undetected disease.

Three Yet One

Footprints walked away from her. Tears dropped from her chin to the ground. It took three words to bring them together, yet it took one lie to break them apart.

Counting

Joyful anticipation

with that first

rapid heart beat

counting

days

picking

names

watching

feet kicking

belly burgeoning

till

small body

is taken,

still,

silent

inducing

a would-be mother's

anguished screams.

The unspoken promise

I will protect you from the demons inside your head

I will destroy every knife you point at yourself

If I fail... When your life fades, mine will be ruined

I Love Nothing.

I love nothing. Music makes me dull. Talking to others makes me void ,loving and caring makes me feel useless. And people make me sick and reading makes me bored.

Goodbye

I’d always hated farewells.

Until last week when my favourite uncle died of the virus and was laid to rest without any loved ones nearby.

I now crave that farewell.

Anymore

Graduate in a year, a proposal at our spot, a set of gold rings, a baby bump, tiny onesies.

And then:

"I just don't see a future with you anymore"

Broken hearted

Today, news flash:

Alaskans have voted have divided Alaska into two states! Now, Texas is the third largest state, it is said thousand are broken-hearted in the lone Star State.