Off The Topic Thursdays/ The Town

In a small town Everyone knows everyone A whole family Lives on the same street The church bells Wakes you up With their melody It’s a place where You put down Roots Start a family And live your everyday life Alex

Off The Topic Thursdays/ Words

Words Can be as sharp As a knife And make you Feel worthless Which breaks you down But when the tables turn Words Can be powerful To build A person back up From the lowest Of the low. Alex

Off The Topic Thursdays/ Red

The colour of love Is red So is the flower That we give on the day of love Red is also the colour of blood That keeps us alive But I’m blind to it Does that mean That I’m blind to Love and life. Alex

Off The Topic Thursdays/Born Into The Dark

It’s hard for her To find who she is She was born Into drugs And when she was barely a teen Her mum would send men To rape her For money Then she ran away And after a lot Of heartache A family took her in And became her loving family Alex

Off The Topic Thursdays/ Dear Body

Dear body Sorry for mistreating you And harming you While you kept trying To keep me alive Even when I didn’t Want to live At all You and me Never had a loving relationship But you are the only one That hasn’t given up on me And I thank you for that And I can … Continue reading Off The Topic Thursdays/ Dear Body →

Off The Topic Thursdays / Real People

Born in poverty In a broken family At night the sound of gun shooting Becomes your sleeping lullaby But he wanted a better life And with determination and hard work He now became the leader Of today’s society

Off The Topic Thursdays/ For A Better Life

Trying to escape The never-ending sand With people firing The rain of rubber bullets On us Then it’s time To battle the sea In hopes that None of us Would die All of this Is for the dream Of a better life

Off The Topic Thursdays / In Today’s World

In these trying times I know how easy It can be to become Angry with the whole world When your own home Turns into a jail cell And your family members Are dropping dead Like flies Please remember That you’re worthy And this world Still needs you

Off The Topic Thursdays/ Light and Dark

Light and dark Day and night Sunrise and sunset The sun is up And you can feel its heat On your skin That brightens soul And everything is right Once again When the dark Haunts the sky The bad thoughts Enter the mind Which brings your life To a standstill. Alex

Off The Topic Thursdays/ At Night

At night I wake up It looks blindly dark You can almost taste it What steals my sleep Is pain That of the body Or that of the mind And writing My words down Is the only thing That brings me Any kind of relief. Alex