http://slow.writerscafe.org/foreverforgiven The original writings of author Chantel en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1775979507 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 Found this in my high school Spanish notebook. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1609680/ I don't know who's right, you or me.And you tell me I'm arrogant, and I might have to agree.Somehow I can't find fault with any silly thing you do,Except the way you leave me there.Maybe I shouldn't care so much,But I know if I stopped trying, then we might fall out of touch,And one da.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1509782/ Everyone is trying to make a sound,To get the attention of those around.And everyone is making too much noise.I'm just sitting here rolling my eyes.But what they do, it works.And my stoic silence, it hurts.Because I've pushed myself down inside;No expression, it's not right.And the tears want to fil.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1354056/ Every nightEvery dayThe heartbreakThe mistakesThey say weCan change the worldBut how can we changeWhat cruel people do?Every nightIt haunts youAtrociousThings they doCan't fix itCan't change itIt's happenedThey made thisAh...And you hadn't done anything wrongAh...So why was this happening to you?Con.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1314462/ Watching years go by,All the time of my lifeFlashing before my eyesAs I get ready to die.So what did we get, a feeling?And what did we leave, a temporary memory?None of it matters once we leave.Do you see what I mean?Spending time with youOr writing songs to play intoMy little space of time--These a.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1301342/ A quick write inspired by a picture from DeviantArt, which is the cover picture. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1268469/ Sing me a lullabySoft in my ear;Take me somewhereFar from here.One simple tuneIs all it takesTo take me somewhereFar away. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1238710/ I wish I could paint pictures of the way I see life,But I can assure you they wouldn't make any sense.I wish I could let you see inside my mind,Just spend a minute in my head.These days I wonder where I'm going,I'm losing control.I feel my wounds now,'Cause when you took my word, you took it all.I w.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1238708/ From junior or senior year. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1238696/ I've built wallsTo keep everyone out,Locked inside this towerI made to protect myself.Now I'm at the window,And I'm looking down.It's a lot to undo;I might need some help. 'Cause I'm a mess inside,And I might take some time.If you (really) care about me,(Which) I don't know why, http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1238693/ Written during sophomore year, a tough time for me. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1238691/ The day when I lose youCan only come too soon.You ask me why my happiness is sadness when I look at you. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1238687/ This isn't news,I always thoughtMy mind was setTo self-destruct.But I never thoughtI would resist so much. 'Cause I'm going down,I'm going out.My life stretches before me now.The death-path of conformity, that's what. 'Cause I can't be who I am and keep a job,And I can't have a job and do .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1238681/ Written Summer of 2013 and fall 2013. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1238679/ Please allow me to slowly fade awayTo hide in darkness and wait for the strengthTo return, so I can take the beatingsAnd somehow find my purposeFind my reasonTo keep pushing through this 'Cause the glaring lightsAnd the distorted smilesAnd their pushing and pullingGets to me after a whileAnd ev.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1238673/ Stop it, get your act together,I tell myself, it's now or neverTo let him goTo get rid of thisStupid, so-wrong fantasyIn my mind, thinking he'd love me ---------- I'm sitting here,A little shocked,The marks of tears still on my faceI've done my bestTo forgetAnd for a while thought I'd get .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1238671/ She's a dream,She's a starry-eyed dreamer.She won't let realityBring her down.Thinking she could beYoung and happy forever;Life's so much better whenYour head's in the clouds. So what do you say,Could we escape?But what if we lost it all?Are we throwing our lives away?Dreamers have so far to fa.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1238664/ I'm letting go,Pulling back the fingers of my heart,Clenched tightly around your memory.You were beautiful while I knew you,But you quickly pulled away.And I don't want to hold against you all the pain, anymore. And it's taken me this long to sayThat if I saw you today, I'd probably look away.A.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1238663/ Feeble mindFeeble heartHiding, silent,In the darkLife is saferWhen you can't seeAnd I'm too scaredTo believe ChorusBut all this "middle ground" is a lieJust another way to lose your life. The truth isYou can give everything,Or you can lose everything--Time is running out to decide. Shaking.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1238660/ EM, written in Sophomore or Junior year. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1238658/ This is what she wants from me.This is what he wants from me.There's no way I can be both. I've got knuckles whiter than skinHolding onto another sin.I suppress my screams again. When I don't hide, I scream insideCome on, pretty liar, start a fightYou don't look so perfect to me anymoreLet.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1237621/ A little piece I wrote in my sophomore or junior year in high school. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1237620/ Another older start-of-song I completed recently. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1237614/ Abandoned dreams are more deadlyThan we imagine them to beShe is just a shell of who she wasYou can even ask Mary(That's right.) http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1237608/ Biddy and Con get into a bit of trouble... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1188918/ 1718 - When best friends and partners in crime Biddy and Con are separated, Con follows Biddy to the Americas to try to find her, not knowing the trouble her friend is getting into. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1188917/ I had my doubts when Rena took a box of chalk fromher desk drawer and started drawing on the floor where we had been standing,but of course I didn’t say anything. She drew what looked to me like adecorated circle and a lot of lines and arrows and maybe some writing inanother langua.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1002365/ I found Maria at the table where the three of usused to sit at lunch. Her lunch tray was pushed to the side and she nibbled ona slice of apple as she read her book. She had probably spent her lunchesexactly like this for the past month and a half. Surely no one had been braveenough to ta.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/1001754/ A month and a half had passed since Marcus' deathwhen I decided to go to school again. By this time I had searched the wholecity for someone who might be able to give me any clue to how to bring someoneback from the dead. I had talked to people from every class and job in sketchyplaces.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/978595/ Basically a prologue, but it's Chapter One. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/972733/ Things can get dangerous trying to cheat Death... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/972705/ Here's to the small town where I live. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/962633/ Someone from school...there's more than one person like this actually, but for some reason this person is who I wrote about... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/754199/ You're a mystery, really.You always have a smileNo matter what you're feeling.But maybe I've learned to see through that a little.Or maybe it's getting harder for youTo keep up this act, this  perfect you.And I've always looked up to you,But maybe you're wrong about this.There's.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/704401/ From this last winter, I think... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/704388/ So...kinda cheesy...but I was happy.. :) http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/704384/ I'm sick of these conclusions madeRight as the first note is played.One glance, and you think you've got meAll figured out.I'm not as simple as you might think.I'm sick of the way you look at me.Like I'm not worth exactly as much as you are--Well I am. You won't give me the ti.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/704375/ Let's play a game.Oh, it will be tons of fun.It's called I hide away from everyoneAnd never come out again.Never have to take responsibility for word and action,Never have to see the pain on your face when I do exactly what I said I wouldn't... You said, you can't escape from me, li.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/704367/ Not the best, but kind of fun to sing. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/704352/ Drowning in a sea of broken dreams.Crashing waves and storm clouds make it hard to see.The future seems so far away,And you wonder if it was ever there at all... Can you feel it?A rumble far beneath the surface... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/704342/ So I've got this bad habitOf begging for forgivenessEverytime I do something wrong--And then I do it again.Yeah you know how it is.Yeah you know how it is. And God's really good, butI don't want to push itI know that something isn't right about this.I think I know what it is.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/704337/ Haha. I suck at titling things. :D Dear cousin, this is for you, but don't worry, I didn't even spend much time on it. :) http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/704331/ So tired...I don't want to try anymore.Reduced to sobbing on the floor.(Now I)I can't take this anymore,So keep your eyes from mine.Did I know someday I'd break down?There's got to be a reason...Some reason I'm even around,But I can't see it. God, please give me the streng.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/704324/ Yeah, it's funny how you've got that double standard,That only you can sayThose things to me.(Hey, hey)It doesn't work that way.I realize that I do the same thing sometimes.I wish I could sayThat I was perfect,But hey, it doesn't work that way. Don't give me that look like.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/704321/ You could have told meYou didn't want me around.I would have listenedInstead of pulling you down.Thought you were beingSo kind,But you are nothing but a liar in my mind.In my mind... You can get out of my head now.I will tear you from my thoughts.Watch the last blood drain.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/695690/ Set your glass down on the floor,Come, little girl, and give me more,You say, 'cause your blood's the best thing I've tasted. It's so fun to watch you cry.I won't give a reason whyI've acted this way,I just say what I need to get by in the moment. Disgusting, I .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/695244/ Needs a new title... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/693114/ Look in my eyes,You won't see anything.Take my hand,It's neither warm nor cold.But somewhere deep inside,A flame is still burning.Some small part of meThat hasn't surrendered yet. Quieted easily enough,Don't worry.Shut up and smileAnd make myself a fool.Somewhere screa.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/682534/ It's colder than you know...It's colder than you know... Apathy has finally taken over me.It's the opposite of before.I've settled into this discontent complacency,But I'm not moving, no... I've made the call.(I've made the call.)You can answer or not.(You can answer .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/682533/ Needs a better title for sure!! http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/foreverforgiven/682532/