Ja-Nail

"This is gonna hurt, love." Paul barely had time to brace himself before Maya plunged the needle into his arm. Its bite was none too gentle and aroused a small scream that he was ashamed escaped his lips. At first he thought she had again injected him with something but as she pulled the plunger back and the syringe filled with liquid he saw that wasn't the case. Only the liquid in the syringe wasn't blood.  Panic filled him as he watched the colors swirl in the syringe. What was going on? "What is that?" Maya spared him a glance but he didn't like what he saw in her eyes. "It means it's spreading faster than I thought it would." Sighing sh

1 The Keeper     His bones ached down to his core. Step after step he climbed the cold marble staircase feeling the cold seep through his slippers with each step. Normally on a night like this where each bone held its own pain he'd take the elevator. What a marvelous invention that was. Only problem was the elevator was broken and getting a repairman to come fix it was harder than it sounded. He was lucky they even had an elevator and he admitted that its presence killed the atmosphere of the old keep. Though the Watchers had agreed on an elevator to navigate the floors with ease that's where they drew the line, the elevator was the only t

     I sit here with my scepter in hand, staring at the blank faces in the room. Oh how they cower before me! The fools, they know not what they mess with. I have powers they have not even begun to guess at. I could wipe them from the face of this planet with but a single word, so awesome is my power. Yet still these fools batter and argue about the fate and future of this world as if it rest upon their shoulders, as if they have the power to change anything. How arrogant, how completely egotistic of them.     Nothing matters anymore, life, death, it's all the same to me. They may sit me upon their false throne and place this scepter in my

Cry for me once and I will be broken Laugh for me twice and again I'll be whole Shame me but once and I will be wounded Praise me but twice and again I'll be healed Hate me yet once and I will be helpless Love me yet twice and again be independent Rage toward me once I will have heartache Peace toward me twice and I'll be reborn Of all the things you've ever done, I pray to you never stop. Cry for me, then laugh for me. Shame me, then praise me. Hate me, but love me. Rage towards me, peace with me. And I promise I'll always be yours.

Shall I remember our walks in the rain? Or the nights I cried from emotional pain? The times that we talked and kissed tenderly, Or the day you rebuked me unfavorably? The days I thought there could be no other, Or the day you told me you found another? The bonds of love that shall remain unbroken, Or the angry words the we left unspoken. The parting gifts you left as a token, The way my heart fell and will remain broken. You said that you felt more like a brother, The grief felt when you told me I smother. The way you kissed me so passionately, The way you cheated so unfaithfully. The way you said you could never explain? The

The days pass like deary tears, No longer can I count the woes, Or friends I've lost over the years, Nor people I have hailed as foes. How tiring it is so. My heart it broke in two before, You shrugged and said you didn't care That you're the one who left me sore, My love you say you cannot bear How sad that it is so. So now I live from day to day, Held high my chin I do not weep Nor bow my head and meekly say, I wish it were my heart you keep. How happy it is so. I find me in the month of June, I left my heartache in the fall Gayly I will whistle a tune, Laugh and not think of you at all How lucky it is so. Love it passes like th

If given an eternity, I would lay contently in his arms forever If given a lifetime, I would give every moment of happiness over to him If given a year, I would give him my every waking hour If given a month, I would show him the meaning of love If given a day Hear him say once that I love you All I have is a moment A lifetime is but a second, forever a minute I wish I had an eternity, lifetime, a year, a month, or even a moment But this I do promise you You have my thoughts for a moment My desire for a month My passion for a year My youth for a lifetime But my love is for eternity

Beyond all pale reflections are mountains, Thick with the fall of soft silken snow. This is the desire of the heart, Hung between cloud and sky like a star. Forever buring be the desire within, Those dreams that one desire goad us on. Begging us to reach our goals. Forever in sight, Always out of reach. But reach, because that is all we can do. When all else fails what do we go back to? Why it is a dream, our desire a guiding star. Let the stars of our desire lead us true. Let not the mountain within be contained. We all have a desire deep within our breast. Ignore it not, be forever true, For when we are set side by side, How

My love, say you, I'm beautiful beyond compare, When last I had looked I was of the average; Say you, when you are near, you can't help your stare, But I have seen you look at another visage; Say you, no rose could ever be as sweet as I, Yet bring you no rose to compare me the difference; Say you, I float gracefully with a gentle lie, But know I full well none could have more earthliness; Say you, when I speak, that you hear an angel sing, But think I that angels would sound more appealing, Say you, with my beauty, I would dull a gold ring, Yet bring you no ring to help along your wooing. I am no goddess, nor queen, nor nymph divi