Picture Prompt

Prompt

 I found the strangest thing in my pocket

I found the strangest thing in my pocket today. Now, we all have our definition of strange: an odd shape, an odd color, an odd person place or thing or some combination thereof. In this situation it was none of those. The item in and of itself was benign. Ordinary enough for a pocket. It wasn't the item itself that was strange, but rather the circumstances of the whole thing. See, I don't have a pocket on this pair of pants.

-Rebekah

The Scars and Stripes

Innocence doesn't suit you, honey

Innocence is ignorance

And the only bliss is ecstacy

 

You'll bear your scars

Like tiger stripes

And your blood and bruises-

War paint

 

See you stride with a senseless smile

Tearing towers down in your travelling trainwreck

Carrying the twisted tangle of mangled memories

Alone with only a living lie to carry comfort

 

Finger on the trigger

Watch them break like glass bottles

Spilling red-dead wine across

Greedy grey pavement longing for color

 

Drinking through a pale-eyed gaze

Pounding power permeates your bloodstream

An addicting flow of alcohol that blinds you to your miserable morality.

 

-Rebekah