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[Melody]

3-4 Light/Dark
The dark is the shadows:
The drugs, drink, and death.
The light is the sun:
The hopes and the dreams.
The world was once light.
Darkness a stark contrast
To the goodness of it all.
But now the world is darkening.
A stain is spreading across the oceans.
Day by day the world is dying,
And soon it shall be eternal night.

14 – Smile
“Smile,” commanded the photographer, but she would not. Megha stood silently by the side of her new husband, a slight frown creasing the smooth brown skin of her forehead. Her lustrous black hair gleamed in the perfect spring sun. She should have been happy; after all, she was now a wife and would soon have children, but Megha could not help but wish for a different man to be in her life. Alykhan, her new husband, appeared to be all that he should but behind the scenes he was rough and uncouth. He beat Megha if she did not comply to his wishes, though he was crafty and hit only where others could not see. Before being forced into an arranged marriage, Megha had loved a man; kind, compassionate, and caring, Will had been the perfect man for her. But Will had been shipped off to war and now, at the age of sixteen, Megha was being married off to a thirty-two year old man who would never love her.

“Smile!” the photographer shouted again, but still she would not. She questioned whether another smile would ever cross her face, or if she would be condemned to eternal depression. She glanced over to the man by her side and decided. No, she wouldn’t be happy as long as this beast was her husband. She was never to smile again.

23 - Cat


25 - Trouble Lurking


28 - Sorrow

[Melody]

38 - Abandoned
Presents gathered round the tree
Sleeping children wake
Tripping down the stairs to see
The treasures that await.

The sparkling lights upon the roof
Spreading Christmas cheer
The magic in the air is proof
That Santa had been here

Ripping through the paper wrap
Revealing what’s inside
Crawling into Mommy’s lap
Filling her with pride

Looking out the window pane
The little girl did see
Another face soaked in the rain
Which then away did flee

The little child dashed away
Into the raging storm
All he could do was hope and pray
To have a place so warm.

His family had left him there
Abandoned on the street
All these years with such despair
Forever in defeat

He raised himself in alley ways
Got by with scraps and pity
The worst of times were Christmas days
When joy ran through the city.

91 – Drowning
First of all, whoever wrote books about drowning has never experienced it. My life did not flash before my eyes; I did not float peacefully in the calm water and drift up to heaven. No. The water burned my throat and sloshed into my lungs as I sucked the water in. I was too busy dying to remember any of my past life and, let me tell you, there is no such thing as heaven. Once the waves had had their fun and I was finally good and dead, I drifted down to the bottom where the current took over. I was crushed against rocks and debris, tossed around like a leaf in a storm. Washing up three weeks later, decayed and fetid, people were surprised that I, prom queen and little miss perfect, had killed myself. What can I say? Social suicide was the worst. Compared to that, real suicide was easy.

92 – All That I Have
I will give you everything.
All that I am, all that I was,
All that I will become.
I will give you all that I have,
All that I want,
All that I need.
I will give you all of me,
All of my hopes,
All of my dreams.
I will give you anything,
Just to make you stay.
Stay with me so that I can be
All that I should.
All that I would be if you didn’t go.
Stay with me and I will not fail.
Leave and I shall die.

90 - Triangle



18 - Rainbow

[Adelaide]

totals for entries have been updated.
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don't think that it's too late to join!
there's still PLENTY of time left.
no need to ask, either.
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[Melody]

7 - Heaven



21 - Vacation

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46 - Family

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37 - Eyes

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19 - Gray



52 - Deep In Thought



81 - Pen and Paper

[matt]

# 74 - ARE YOU CHALLENGING ME?

lawllawl y'all HAD to know this was coming.