http://slow.writerscafe.org/MoonLitShadow The original writings of author Emily en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1775979965 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 tis the idea that a woman, stuck where she is, can see all that she could reach, if only she wasn't stuck. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/1291207/ I'm trying to breatheOpen my mindAnd fly awayI'm open to changeBut everything hurtsToo much to be easy. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/728091/ Everything hurtsWhen I'm always aloneMy heart beats fasterAnd I just want to go homeI hurt all the timeAnd my worries aboundAnd some days latelyDeath seems so sound. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/728088/ Hand me the matchesSo I can watch me burnEverything you were to me.Once.Away it'll blowAn ash cloudof disintegrated memoriesIf only forgetting were that easy. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/728086/ If I could goA thousand miles awayAnd forget my pastI might just take the carAnd drive away.You've got everything you wantedAnd i gave you everything I hadSo I'm left with nothing,But my shattered heart,In a box of things to throw away. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/728085/ They act as thoughI shouldn't miss youWhen my heart is alwaysThreatening to break againIt was never an easy love,baby.I worked for everythingAnd all you didWas give up -- on me.When it was your turn.But I was the one left behindThe one who gave everythingOnly to have it all destroyedBy you.So, no,I .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/728081/ I'm awakeWishing I was asleepWalking through my dayDay dreamingI'm seeing shadows jumpAnd I'm laughing to myselfSomedayI'll slip awayInto my daydreamsI'll be long goneBefore you know itAnd you'll regretLetting me goCause, that day, you'll be aloneAnd I'll be on my wayYou'll have fallen backOut of my.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/728079/ Close your eyesDrown in the feel of meMy hands; my heatCoursing through your bodyLie back,Relax in the feel of meThe way I connect our bodiesFly away with me.Every nigh I dream.Of being taken awayDreaming awayWith you. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/728078/ I awake with a startTo the roar of thunderThe crash of lightningThrowing shivers down my spineMore asleep than awakeI long to turn to youHave you take me in your armsRemind me that you're thereTake me in the chaosOf lightning strikes And thunder rollsTake me in the darknessFilled with flashed of lig.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/728076/ But, tis sleep      I long forThe cool edge     Of darknessCalling to me     From the foldsHeavily laden blankets     Comfort and warmthAnd you     I long for, youIn the darkness   &nbs.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/728074/ Beauty is an arched neckA simple danceThe one look             -- In an eyeBeing closely watchedThe beautiful extensionA whirl of movementCaught in flightDancing, beautyFeathered in white http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/728073/ Thoughts flow as rapidsThrashed among the rocksSanity and reason strikeRestricting banks of physics swellBattered by restrictionsImagination dwindlesThe impossibleToo impossible to achieveDown river it flowsWhere rocks yield to forceAnd banks breakIn the calm -- Imagination swells http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/728072/ Trapped beneath darknessHeavy on a broken soulGrasping hand seeks reliefA hand reaching through darkness                 -- to light http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/728069/ But,By day we dreamThe thoughts by which we sleepOpen eyed --Never truly awakeInto our mind they slipThrough ever-closed doorsAnd barred windowsTo an unconscious mindHiding everything there is to loseWe wander through dayDarkness on the sillOf every entrance to our souls http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/728068/ sometimes, you've gotta ask questions http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/708232/ I am trying to remember how to write. The words left with his coming, and receded further with his going away. I'm lost, and quite alone, like a newborn in the wilds of the world... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/708226/             Nightly she lies by his side, her head resting on his heartbeating softly in his chest. She lies there listening to the easy beat. Neitherof them is asleep, but they will soon be. If asked, they can never say whofalls asleep first, or who is t.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/622861/ What a funny joke GodShe screams to the skyShow me the folliesof Princessesled by lies.Lead me to PrincesWho no longer have the wordsTo broken down castlesWhere only wind can be heardThe steeds in whiteHave gone out to pastureAnd everything left is daydreamsAbout happily ever after. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/617651/ I told you I loved youIn a dream I had onceYou told me to hang onAnd that you loved me too.I know That you're the one I'd missEven if by chanceWe'd never managed to meet. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/615303/ The rain drops crescendo Like the flow of a melodyAnd my heart longs to flowDown from the sky http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/615299/ I'm hurtingAnd I'm scared to close my eyesEverything falters so easilyNightmares slide inAnd I'm lost to the fear. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/615297/ I just want you to hold meCause I'm lonelyAnd I need you to touch me.The barest brush of your handIs enough to quell my fearsWelcome to you're killing me,I'm killing me slowly too. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/615294/ Sometimes I really wonder why doctors can so easily tell you that according to some chart that you're overweight. I'm an athlete and 170lb of muscle at 5'9". But, apparently, that is overweight... :-( http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/615292/ I remember back to when I couldn't breatheWishing and hopingTo delay the day you'd leaveAnd I'd be left there,Re-Learning how to breatheCause some daysThe world begins and ends with youAnd some daysIt is hard to love youBut Baby,I've always thought you worth it,When my world fell apartI'd still wish.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/615290/ Write to the point of disasterSo much for happily ever afterNothing will ever beAs easy as it should be. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/615283/ Maybe this timeWhen darkness fallsI'll open my soulAnd hear the call.I'll open my eyesTo sometimes still so newWhen everything will alightAnd my world will open wide. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/615282/ I'm always searching for wordsTo write out everythingBut I'm just not finding myself.Days pass, so quicklyAnd blank pages blow in the windUn-touched by any mark http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/615279/ You've been in my wordsSlept beside me in my dreamsI've felt your heartbeatFantom like your breath on my neckI want more than haunted memories,And your image plaguing my dreamsI want you,And everything about you,I hope and prayThat things go my way. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/615277/ I no longer wish to writeAbout broken piecesof me lying about.I've got myself togetherThough I never found anotherI'd rather let you break me againMaybe you'll relent,     My love,And keep me whole. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/615275/ I saught not to love you,For years when we parted ways,I'd cry for you in the darknessand hope to wake in your armsYou're a light In my darkness,Where i thought I'd never see,And my heart is lostAnd found by you. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/615272/ You ask me why I stay,WHen you've broken my worldRepetitive earthquakesTo my psycheI always sayBecause I care about you,And I can't forget you,When I'm really trying to say:"You know I love you, right?" http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/615270/ Sometimes I prefer a pencilThought i can smear along the pageBut I can writeAnd then erase,All the things I can't say.There one secondThe release of fallen wordsThen gone againLike whispers never heard http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/615269/ Sometimes she needs a little     ReassuranceThat her world is not falling downCause when she decided     to loveShe decided to love you. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/612446/ Break my world like glassIce shattering to fall apartAt the seamsPoor tortured puppetPulled from his stringsDance, they saidAnd he dancedDis-jointed rather than smoothSit, they saidAnd he satFlopping down where dropped.Then, they said, loveBut love, he saidCould not be controlled by stringsAnd so th.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/611343/ Sometimes I dream to wonderThe day to day details I ponder.I sit alone, in the wilds of the cityAnd long to be,Anyone but me.If you looked at my life,What would you see,But a silly little girlTrying to be the proverbial 'me'I'm clearing time to distanceThe way my heart achesAnd sometimes you just ca.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/594514/ Every night I think to writeA thousand wordsJust before I sleepI slip into dreamsWIth stanzas on my lipsBut no pen in my mindWHen I wake I rememberThe brilliance of the ideaBut my mind wont remember the linesI always fall asleep thinkingI'll remember in the mornAll the words I had yet to sayBefore s.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/587779/ Gnats in the sunlightNeed the rays flashingTo make their flight danceIn the early morning of the country.But darkness fallsAnd the sunlight fades awayAnd all the little lightsCome out to play   like something out of a dreamBeautiful green fieldsStretch as far as the eye can seeAnd billions.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/587778/ I'm hurtingYou're laughingSoldiers watchingHumpty-Dumpty fall http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/587773/ Why am I broken and bleeding     for youWhen I'm the last thing on your mind?Why am I tangeled in this web of memories     unable to break freeAnd you're high as a kite     Remembering nothing of me.I'm afraid I'll always love you     In a .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/587771/ I'm in NeverlandFlying away with Peter PanClosing my eyes in meadowsEver waking in springI'm dancing in a worldWhere I don't have to grow upWhere I don't have to changeAnd figure out my life.So leave me be PeterI'm too young for your attentionsBeyond the gap I'm stayingand like you --- I'm neve.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/587769/ Blue ink is bleedingAll over my handsRunning through my lifelineHauntingly shortCarribean Blueflowing along hidden linesBringing to the surfaceThings never really seenIt fills in the linesof age and stress and worryLIke the blood in my veinsfinally showing http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/587768/ Don't come to meMy eyesblinded by painI grin and bear itClasp my handsAnd try to sleepDon't come back to me,The damage is already doneIt isn't healingBut reluctantlyI'm still breathingDon't come back to me. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/587767/ Sometimes I need a minuteTo take myself backAway from my memoriesANd back to the presentI take my timeTo re-evaluateand to re-focusYou're not in my life anymore. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/587766/ Beyond the scope of dreamsFears and hopesAre all left behindOnly beauty remains,      and Peace. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/587765/ This isn't the game of novels,Of playful banterA warring of wordsWhich lead to happy endingsThis is a game,Where you try to hurt me,A game where our warring wordsDrive a wedge into our hearts.This may once have been,My happily ever afterThe tryings of a lonely, hopeless girl.But, it was always your .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/587762/ The thunder rolls inA dominating soundThe percussion to our melodyAs you roll above meI want to fell your strengthTake the wind from blowing sailsAs you arch over meAnd I parry every blow.I want to feel youLike I've never felt beforeThe dominating presenceRolling in and over meJust like the coming s.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/587759/ Sunlight dawnsAnd I'm already gone,To the countrysideWhere the dawning rays of sunCatch on the wingsOf millions of tiny gnatsThe clouds of bugs sway togetherUndisturbed by me driving byThe beauty of the pasture landMakes me cut the musicAnd roll down the windowsOh the smell of early morn,And the rus.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/572479/ What is darknessBut a lightless void?Where monsters dwellAnd nightmares brew themselvesinto a crescendo.Met by the scraping of nailsAnd screams of the damnedAny conscious which ventures thereWill lose track of reality -- and be consigned to damned eternity. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/572477/ As odd as it may seemI'm done with my dark depressionDone with my long lost love affairBack down from dreamlandTo stark reality -- and emptynessSo what do I have left?The blankness in the depths of my soulIs void -- of both light and darknessI'm still trying to figure it out -- but i've got nothing... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/572474/ I don't ask youWhere you went and whyCause it would be too easyTo replay and repeatAll your answersFom all of our yesterdays. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MoonLitShadow/572471/