Justine Dell

The Storm It’s the moment you realize how quickly you can be crushed. How rapidly you crumble. Love should be warmth and light. But this was so cruel, so swift. No time to stop and think. Consider. The words continue to spin around you, a tornado you can’t escape. Slashing your heart, bending and breaking your soul, your spirit.   Life tilts, uncomfortably. You question your worth. Stability. Your very happiness. You flick the tears away, suck in the soft sobs. And pray for the end of the storm. 

The Old, The New It is done Damaged, bent, and broken Jagged pink lines scar my thoughts, my soul My paper thin skin squeezes my body, Flaking off like the paint from the hundred year old house down the lane  My heart shrunken, shriveled with tattered veins Each step more difficult than the one before I know this day will be my last... The peek of dawn appears on the glistening white horizon Cheers and celebration flow into my ears, igniting something new, different. Beats thrum through me, awakening my cells, shaking off the worn Time fades away Scars fade Hurt heals Blood rushes through my veins, strengthening my heart I straighten, my body shedding the last feelings of old With a renewed hope and a smile, I step into 2018

Let's just cut to down to the chase. It's almost a new year. It's time to do new things. Including reading. In light of this new an amazing year, I give you a gift: HALF of my ebooks will be free on Amazon starting 1/1, and the other HALF are only 99 cents.    CLICK ME !    Spread the joy and gift and reading. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Now on to the regularly scheduled post for the new year.  Wow. 2018. Not too long ago I realized that I started writing over 10 years ago. While that writing has created  some amazing pieces of works (some even published), it also allowed to meet some absolutely amazing people and do some pretty amazing things. Like some, I faded in and out of the writing world over the years. Life took hold and my passion for several things took the back burner.  This past year in particular was a difficult, yet life changing and incredible. I sit here today, beyond blessed and hopeful fo

I am not broken Why can't you see you are hurting me? Why can't you see I'm not as strong as you? My thoughts and feelings are a raging river flowing through me.  Your laughter and disdain coat me with lava, halting my emotions, searing every inch of me.  Do you not respect my feelings? Me? Can you not see this is who I am? What I am?  It's love or leave.  Respect of walk away.  Understand or go.  So go. 

The End I sit here, weak and dreary My eyes swollen, dark and teary Each breath I take, tight and shaky The wind feels like sand, coarse and breaking Did you know I would feel like this? It’s like the earth moved and I didn’t Yet, I’m spinning out of control With a life that doesn’t have you in it. The sun no long wakens me early in the morning The sounds of your voice no longer cradles me That should’ve been my first warning Darkness rocks me to sleep now, its cold breath chills my bones I wear loneliness like a blanket, oh, how I wish I would’ve known You’ll be fine, they say, the pain will fade with time But this isn’t their ache, their sorrow has never fallen in this line I pray the end is near, for another day will surely kill me But I’ve been told the agony never fades Only ebbs and flows like the sea I must conclude the rest of my life will be no more Than the replay of love and joy that,

               Disburse darkness           When evil overrides      3 poor, humble people Their lives shredded                      and torn. No need to cry little one -      The sun will still           shine bright.                I'm sorry for your sadness           Emptiness,      Sorry, Damage                     What else can I say? Time   Will      Pass                     Wounds                             Will                                 Heal Tragedy doesn't last FOREVER... ~Written by 14 year old me