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No Good Left / Jada Bryant

No good is left to give. 
Too much good giving can’t be real. 
My heart has had no time to heal. 
Instead, I hide behind a mask so no one knows how I really feel. 
I’ve put all my pain in a space of hope that they just disappear. 
But how my body will guide me to peace is what I fear. 
Sleepless nights, mindless fights, plans of the future lost in sight. 
There’s no way not to be uptight. 
It’s a constant battle between “what’s for the best” and “should I ask for help?” 
Although it’s asked how I felt, answering truthfully just doesn’t feel right. 
Pleasing the “bright side” is what keeps me here. 
Cause it’s always the spirit whispering in my ear. 
“Don’t quit! Remember what your purpose is.” 
The constant back and forth is getting really tiring. 
Yeah that may be a part of life but what about that is aspiring? 
A young girl who has to move forward just cause. 
In the hopes that her future will bring her more love. 
She appreciates the stable love that’s in the present. 
This love is just the type of love that keeps her resting. 
For the sake of what can be done and what can’t, she’ll take the stressing. 
So in this phase of her life, she’ll pretend to love the life she has to live. 
In her next life though she’ll be careful because there will be no good left to give. 

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Ursa Major / Rose Davis

For a Bear 

 

You are Atlas, 

Holding up my sky. 

And I trace the outline of your face 

in the darkness of the light. 

Flesh is cracked with the weight, 

With the stars installed on your back. 

That constellation frame, wide, 

shining brighter in the rural fields 

of this damned state. 

 

Let me be what Hercules wouldn’t. 

Let me hold your hand in sleep, 

and grasp me, made of pillars. 

The universe is but marble 

between our digits. 

You are my Ursa Major, 

Pointing towards our North. 

 

We leave these borders 

of telescope lens sky. 

And your body is marked 

by hundreds of shooting stars. 

Our sky is black tonigh