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I never cry in the daylight

I know what it is to die, curled up on the bed with the sheets strewn about, leaking regret into a pillow case while daylight shines through the window as if everything is ordinary— as if nothing died and the world is as beautiful and logical as ever. I know what it is to sit in a lonely room with a dim lamp for light, wanting desperately to cry, but only able to sit in silence as the nausea gnaws and the images of toxic cleaner fluid cocktails won’t subside and cars keep driving by outside the window, their ghostly headlights illuminating the darkness— reminders that some people still have a reason.   I know what

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10 deviations
Literature

The Tale of Two Lights

Chapter 3: Candle's glow. It has been a month since the royal family killed the leaders of the Council of Sorcerers. The people of the kingdom have now begun to understand the change that has begun. Their once fair and righteous king has now become a true tyrant. As he increased taxes and killed many the people saw as his family also changed. Although she was always known to be a bit quiet, the queen hasn't spoken a word outside the castle. Her expression has become a simple calm face and nothing seems to draw out emotion in her. Despite being present at many of the executions the king arranges she never says a word or makes a different expre

Prose

3667 deviations
Literature

im in the business of destruction

im in the business of destruction im gambling with my luck, i always have been doing this and i will be doing this until the very end im bringing my flaws to the point of self-destruction until all the luck runs out until im all alone until i have no one to turn to im a gambler and a narcis i love myself i love my own destruction i love the rush and fear i love the gamble i love the game i love the way i destroy myself and i will go down in flames im soaked in gasoline and im holding the match i will create my own end i am creator of my life i am creator of my death i will set myself on fire i am the death of me no one can destroy me but mys

Poetry

4283 deviations
Literature

on chasing highs and hitting lows

look out the rearview to see a thunderstorm     orchestrating the florida sky, light keys    and a baseline making believers of us all, and  see how hope only hunts in the shadows,        we the soaked and cold;    say eat this and become the fire because we all want to see something beautiful burn        be it the heavens or ourselves;    so what if we have eaten the night and,  speaking of the sky. or to it: we have spent too long trying to trade places,   miles for miracles, but it just don’t work like that.  both see the world and not say a damn thing  so, why see at all? why not say goodbye already?  but see, th

Poetry Overflow

3004 deviations

Visual Literature

77 deviations
Literature

polaroid memory

is that what happened to you? fitful night terror curled up with the dregs in the shallows of a porcelain teacup don't be mad at him he didn't know about the sun that shone rainbows or Sunday morning pancakes the crystal and the dream catcher tuck me into your bed of false teeth swaddle me in that threadbare security blanket this is the eighteenth second chance but who's keeping count?

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