http://slow.writerscafe.org/Sarahe The original writings of author Sarah Hale en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1776026357 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 ... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1397355/ I can remember being able to fall asleep soundly. I never had to worry about nightmares, because monsters were INTERESTING not scary. 'Monsters' were never scary, I always wanted to find some way to show them that there was still light inside of them. Now I can't sleep, and even when I do sleep it's.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1348994/ http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1322468/ You think you know me?You don't know nothin'You better take a deep breathCause I'm gonna teach you somethin'You keep sayin there's no such thing as freedomBut we both know all you wanna do is bring me downKeep me from setting one foot out the doorConstantly tellin' me "That's what family's for"What .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1265620/ My daddy taught me that the strongest will surviveAnd he always told me strong will keeps you aliveI never learned anything differentand this was all I knew:Everything I did, I did it without youNow here you come again just knocking on my doorscreaming "LET ME IN!"like a million times beforebut how .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1235225/ I don't wanna fight no moreyou never fight fair anywaypullin out your weapons when I haven't got the heart to draw my sword And your words are like daggersand your lies are like knives life's not all rainbows and sunshinebut all along it was your fault not mine I took the blame and I fought to defen.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1235215/ Forgivethat's a real big word for someone like you someone who never saw the hurtand never woke up to the aftermath someone who didn't have to grow up Far sooner than they should because no one else would Someone who didn't have to hold her brothersas they screamed and criedyour name is tabooand so .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1223146/ Could I not be something more?Something never seen before?A thing of strength and will and graceAnd unafraid to smile when facedwith dangers, sorrow, struggles, strifecould I not be something more?Is there nothing more to life? http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1203238/ Who are you?You claim to know me well,the girl who swung for 'casting spells'you say you watched her long ago and know things now no one should knowlike details of her life forgotperhaps you are why she swung?she hopes you are notbut she does not know what's in the pastor how long was that shadow ca.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1200993/ A long time ago, I was frightened of the stormand you came and sang to meWhen we were together you were everything I'd need.And then at some point You wanted something moreA place to call your ownwith everything you wanted morebut you couldn't have just one or twoand you abandoned me when I needed y.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1187996/ "Hey,Don't forget me okay?"My eyes lingered on yours"I won't" I whisperedAs I went my own wayand you went, whistling, on yoursBut that was years agoback when we were younglife seemed so simple then We knew nothing about loveAnd now sitting near the window with my pen in handchewing on the cap again .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1143866/ This is for the final chapter of my story 'the promise of tomorrow' on ff.net tell me what you think! http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1132039/ I've never been one to take certain stepsalways stopped to think it throughbut I'm learning nowI don't have to bow to the whims of everyone elseI'm a little bit nervousI'm a little bit scaredbut I've planted my feet firmlyI won't give up I won't back downexactly how you taught meI won't run away or .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1119572/ I couldn't stop the change in me when our eyes they met across the seaand for a moment all was calmthe battle continued brutal and strongI'd give up the futurefor the sound of your voicefor most it's not easy but I'd make that choicecause the longer I'm with youthe more that I seethe shift in perspe.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1096878/ To the girl of Orion :On cloudy nights you search the skiesfor a belt you know is thereand every time your eyes find mineyou stop there and you stareAnd for an instant nothing exists but you and that daunting smile for once you're quiet not a sound 'cause night only stays a little whilebut if I wait.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1088861/ I hate itHow you come and go How you leave me watching For you out the window I hate itHow you make me wait with baited breathhoping I'll get to see you again I hate itHow the bed is cold How I can't sleep I hate it how you make me weak I hate itHow you scoff and say 'both of us are better off this .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1058994/ Light is forever attracted to the darknessand darkness to the lightthey criss-crosspass each other in a mournful dance of life and death good and evilright and wrong hate and...Loveforever allies and yet enemiesforever loversunable to speakunable to touch http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1058801/ ... It sounds dumbButI feel like I'm chasing a butterflySometimesIt's just within my reachAnd sometimes if I'm still enoughIt will land on me brieflyBut if I move too suddenlyIt flies awayAnd I end up chasing it againAnd I love that butterfly'Cause it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seenThat ev.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1046807/ There were days of adventure spent high in the trees dreams of dragons and ships on the sea Then the sunshine faded and there were pushes and shoveswords carefully tailored to hit were it hurt Long days in darknesshiding in the comfortable darknessof a well built podium with tears that no one would .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1043589/ Your love is like poison running through my veinsan ever streaming riverthe source of all my pain but it's also like the antidotehealing in it's wake all the damage done beforeso only scars remain http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1043023/ Don't speak in Japanese.Don't read manga.Don't watch anime.Don't read books that aren't the encyclopedia.Don't write fanfictions.Don't Write poetry.Don't sing.Don't laugh.Don't speak loudly.Don't speak at all.Be ANYTHING you want to Sarah, but don't be ANYONE at all. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1041187/ "Be yourself," he said when I was youngbut now I'm too loud I shouldn't talkand when I do it has to be englisheven though I want to be a linguist my music is dumb I shouldn't listen to it the comics i read a differenti shouldn't be reading them the shows I watch are animatedbut I'm much too old for .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1041184/ I sit in a diner by myselfand as I watch the cars outside as they speed passed I realize this is lifeThe world stops for no one and the words of the goblin kingautomatically spring to mind There is no such thing as fair Life owes me nothingThe world owe me nothing and so like a bandit I must take wh.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1032023/ So nice was he the day he leftSad smiles, laughter, glimpsesSo heartless I must have appearedpretending not to noticeShould I feel guilty now it's done?Should I wallow 'round in shame?I did not care for him that much had no deep loving of his nameI told him when he asked me outhe couldn't be the one.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1031298/ The glowing starlights on my wallno memories do they recallbut I remember nights so clearbecause those starlights were so near http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1031290/ It is a moment that defines memeeting you inside a dreamThe first time that I bared my souland you heard my silent screamAnd reaching out to the great unknownwithout a fear or woeYou embraced and tamed my wild heartand taught me how to love http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1021341/ The mortal sun ain't shinin' through on a window seat that's built for twoon another long night I've spent waiting for youto show up at my door.And how many days will I have to pretendI won't see you and fall apart all over again And I know that it's wrong and I know it's a sinthat I need .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1015890/ "There's a SHARK in my house! There's a SHARK in my house!And he's flashing his sharpened fangs!There's a SHARK in my house! There's a SHARK in my house!He should try cutting his bangs...  http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1013652/ A little teaser for you guys. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1006156/ It started as flashes of light, pieces of an image. Then a voice that seemed so familar, a song that tore at his heart, and a face, a face he swore he knew but couldn't place. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1006142/ I wish I had a twinTo fight with To yell at To love I wish I had a twin To share withTo pick on To shove I wish I had a twinTo eat withTo speak withTo tease I wish I had a twinbut all I've gotis me. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1003753/ Who ever invented sadnessShould surely be praised and loved! Who ever invented sadnessShould recieve lovely gifts from above. Who ever invented sadnessShould truley receive an award. For whom can experience happinesswithout first surviving dischord?  http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1003747/ My dark angel gives me wingsto rise above the earthMy dark angel gives me strengthand a sense of what I'm worthMy dark angel gives me freedomto live life as I pleaseMy dark angel gives me warmthwhen the world begins to freeze  http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/1000123/ "You're a crybaby," They teased me.I never told them why."You're just ordinary, you'll never touch the sky.""At least," I whispered, "At least I'd like to try.""You'll never be beautiful," they told me."A small price," I think "to pay for being free."And slowly but surely I began my ascentdisregardi.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/999632/ That voice just on the edge of my consciousnessIs it you?The whisper on the forest windIt must be you . It's not pretend.That echo in my soul when I've got no where to turnSurely it's your whisper that makes my spirit burn.A flicker in the darknessIt must be you I claimoh I love your whispered .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/999629/ Calloused fingers brush against a smooth cheekHe's only watching herbut he wants so much to speakAnd deep in slumber she dreams he's by her sideWatching over herand giving her the strength to fightHer lips so soft and gentleHer breathing slow and sureoh how he longs to taint herand yet to .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/999626/ You don't have to love me(though I'd like it if you tried)You don't have to help me up(sometimes though it's nice)As long as you stay with me(Stay standing by my side)And help me in my fights(against the ever changing tide)  http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/985645/ LiesWhispered in the dead of nightPromisesEverything will be alrightLIES!You aren't deceiving me, yourPromises are drowning in this sea of Lies! http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/983189/ Kitten barely stood a chanceI found him newborn and aloneScooped him up and took him homeHad to buy a bottle fed him for weeksAnd let him curl up on my pillow at nightNever expected him to die  http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/974043/ Bite my tongue so I don't make things worseand hate myself for not speaking upfor not standing up for myselfmy words would be wastedfalling on deaf earsor twisted to your own meanings you've been doing that for yearsI want to cry but I'll be damned if I do I can't show any w.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/957830/ It must be lonely to be a rice ballwhen everyone around you is fruityou're bland and plain and ordinaryand you seem so out of place surrounded by everyone's colors You don't belong in a fruit bowl because you've never been a fruityou're nothing more than onigirifading into the background of a f.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/956659/ At first it was small thingsthe last cookie at dessertmy favorite crayon in the boxthe flowers I grew in grade school as I grew so did your needsspare time was spent cooking dinnerwashing dishes, folding clothesstanding up for you so I could get kicked in the face I grinned and bore itit i.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/956654/ How was I to know you hated me so much?When you made a point of being my friend.How was I to know I was such a nuisance?When you welcomed mewith open arms.How was I to know you loved somebody else?When you told me I stood a chance with you.How was I to know you were onl.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/950896/ EverythingThat is what I would give for youI'd do anything you askedBecause I can't resist that stupid smileI'm spellbound by your stupid laughentrapped by the warmth of your wordsI cannot escapeI am like a caged kittenFearless and curious but never straying too far from youNever escaping the confin.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/949872/ She could hear him, calling to her, calling her by name, and she knew it must be important because he NEVER called her by her name.  She was tired, and cold despite being wrapped tightly in his arms and if she could just close her eyes and sleep, just for a moment- but he wouldn't let her. .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/947647/ "Enjoy while you can. Endure when you must." http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/947641/ I HATE you!I hate how you hold herhow you look at her I hate how you talk to herhow you laugh with herhow you walk down the street holding hands with herI hate how you sit with herhow you smile at herI hate how you make me feel helplesslike an idiot as I stand with both of youI hate how it.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/945106/ You wouldn't sit so pretty If you knew the things I knowIf you went the place I go If you sowed the things I sow.You wouldn't sit so pretty If you came from where I cameIf you sang the songs I sangIf you had the names I'm named.You wouldn't sit so pretty With your pretty flawless.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/941976/ In the bottomof a drawer at the back of my roomis a tinywooden boxinside the boxis a letterwrit one-thousand years agoand left in a hollow ofa sacred treea place thatonly we knowfrom time to time I take it outand listen for your voiceI would havemade the pastmy hom.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/941963/ You laugh at something I saidand I lounge back against the arm of the sofawith a raised eyebrowFeeling more and more indifferentI wonder briefly if you noticeif my being so aloof bothers youbut the thought is gone the moment it appearswhat does it matter anyway?I keep some space between usallowing y.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Sarahe/941365/