Naia rose gracfully from her head, the silk robe she'd worn the night before
falling from the bed against bare legs.
It was silent in her room, but she could almost feel the
groups of girls and boys scurrying around the halls, no doubt
readying for Halloween - a week away.
She curled her fingers around the knob and turned it, opening a mere crack to peer into the hallway. A red headed girl rushed by with a black
and green banner trailing from her hands.
Followed was a short girl with black hair and dark eyes, carrying two banners in each hand.
Naia turned to go, letting a sandles foot slide against the outside wood floors - and someth
Look at the sky
It's melting
Blue falling away to show magnificence
Indigo, violet, orange
Ripping away at the edges
I never knew it existed
Somehow the magnificence smears to black
Diamonds thrown across it
But those rocks aren't precious stones at all
They're only little pin pricks
Stretched on to become gaping holes
Of blue and white
Sun sets and sun rises
Don't exist at all
A ploy received through endless screening
But the bulbs are broken
No longer are we blind
No longer are we ignorant
Life was better
When our minds
Were wide
And our eyes
Were shut