Zoe

__The Hunt__ The day was as beautiful as a rose I was hopping around hoping to find Harold the hedgehog A presence was with me The smell of twinkies and cigarettes was in the air I stopped like a car at a red light A creature stood holding something black click like a beetle BANG! everything became black like outer space.

Seen it from a distance It was in my line of sight Red dot on its heart Brown fur like milk chocolate Two sharp knives sticking from its head I watched it Still as a statue it stood Adrenoline surged through my heart like a stake Cocked the gun That sound so sweet like the smell of an orchid Trigger pulled, Ring in my ear Red satin flowed from the poor beast.

__I am...__ a thief of clothes the listener of complaints the one to cry with up late at night like a roaming predator hidden in the dark an invader of showers the shadow beneath your bed the voice above her head the sheild in battle the best friend the pancake maker a late night muncher

__Bear Trouble__ iCe cap MelTing ice BreaK-up TrouBle for Polar bears inCreaSing nUmBer polar bears SeNt into toWn ThiN and huNGreY bears eGG- gobbLing funnel CloUds vErY fRagiLe SaVE hUngRy polar bears controlling snow goose population nEw fOod source sAviNg hungry polar bears

__Pond__ I stare longingly at the pond. My long brown hair dancing in the breeze. The wind singing a sweet lullaby to me. My skin warmed by the sun. My feet splashing in the cool refreshing water as the fish scurry. Looking at the ripples in the water. This is the ballad. The ballad of summer of the people you call immature of the people that your future depends on. Our hearts sing this ballad. The ballad of happiness the ballad of life.

__The Big Lie__ No one sees my sorrow my pain. Its darker than shadows than the night. My smile only shows. It's my disguise so you don't have to see my twisted side my hurt heart. I see the falseness surrounding me drowning me. I stay behind this unseen lie the lie I created. I watch I mock at those who pretend to be happy to be perfect. Then I realized that I am them.

__I hate loving you.__ My mind always wanders to you. Life is dull without you. When we're together we're unstoppable we're invincible. we laugh, we scream, we're a team. I hate feeling helpless. I hate being defenseless. Do you know what it feels like to see you get hurt from the sidelines? Do you recognize how it feels to see you somewhere other than here when I sit alone? Will you care when I walk away? My eyes tear, my mind spins. I'm always there for you. Are you ever there for me?

__Grampy__ I'm haunted by your memory I cry when I think of you I see your face everywhere I can't enter town without the thought of you Why'd you have to leave me? I feel alone without you I wish I could talk to you To tell you I need you I miss you Do you remember when we went fishing and I caught that fish that was bigger than the one you caught? Or when we would watch the trains go by? When you left I couldnt breath I couldnt see I didn't even look like me I felt incomplete But now your free from that disease I wonder where you could be... Are you watching over me? I love you Grampie __Lonely Girl__ She's attracted to it Like a magnet. It's color so bright and happy. She takes it To ease the pain that others have caused her. Fall asleep on those nights she couldn't stop crying. The moments she feels like she doesn't belong in this world. . "Something so small couldn't possibley hurt." The feeling it gave faded away. White. So dull and lifeless. Nothing mattered in the world anymore. She kept searching for a stronger fix. Nothing was good enough. Needles. Snorting. Her memories never faded. She wanted an escape. Her only way out, Death.