Sam Alexandra Rose

Tag: amwriting

  • it could have killed you

  • maybe forever

    the appeal of
    just not moving
    just choosing to be
    completely still
    just for a while 

    maybe forever

  • All The Things I Am

    Sit down and let me tell you
    all the things that I am.
    I guarantee my list will not
    match up with any assumptions
    you may have made in your head 

    and it will barely match up with
    any list I could have made five years ago.

  • Glow in the Dark Words

    I don’t know why I always gravitate towards writing about negative, unhappy things. I am in a good mood – I am happy, honest! I am in a good place, but I can’t seem to write from this place. When I write it’s only because something has happened to make me think of a darker place – I have nothing to say about happiness. Why?

    Glow in the Dark Words

    Why must there be suffering before there is art?
    I cannot create art from anything else life gives me.

    My words glow in the dark –
    I can’t find them in bright places
    but when I’m in that black place again
    they’re everywhere.
    It’s like a word-growing field.
    The word farm.

    I wish I was writing from a different place.
    I wish I was writing from the present, but
    the feel of my own forearm gives me flashbacks.

    In sunshine, the words don’t exist.
    In sunshine, I am useless.