
Growing UpBang! Bang! Bullets ricochet from every surface around, but none seem to hit the target. Yet you can still feel them as they fly by, painfully close to an arm or a leg. Yet you can still hear the pop! of the gun and the ding! of the thousands of bullets around you. One falls at your foot, and you pick it up.Growing Up by =Foxdapple101
Give up, it seems to say. Look at everything around you, everything wrong with your life, the path you're headed on - a path full of pain and failure - and just give up now.
You can't win, another whispers in your head. No one ever wins the game of life: not you, not anyone. It's impossible.
The sound of screaming, hot metal fills your

Wishing on RosesPluck a petal from a rose.Wishing on Roses by =Foxdapple101
Drifting down, he loves me.
The second petal floats away.
And now he does despise me.
A third, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth,
And seventh marks his care.
The eighth and ninth and then the tenth,
Now I can't help but stare.
I guess that it's not time for love,
And tears begin to fall.
And then I spot the last petal;
He loves me after all.

Till Death Are We PartedTwo lovers make this taleTill Death Are We Parted by =Foxdapple101
A love that couldn't fail
Yet broken up in bits
This love took many hits.
Their happiness, critiqued
Relationships were tweaked
They could not take it now
It's time to take a bow.
From start to end, this love
Was doomed from those above
They said it wouldn't last
'Twas too much in the past.
The lovers tried to live
Their love just would not give
Until the very end
When their love couldn't mend.
Deciding on a plan
Of which both were a fan
The lovers chose to leap
Into eternal sleep.
It was too much to take
Their bond, though, would not break
And yet both chose to stop
To take it to the top.
But