Nicole Johnson

Category: poetry

  • Deja vu

    I lay awake from a dead sleep with this ashen-look upon my face. It couldn’t be true. How could I say good-bye to you? I’ve mentally prepared myself for the day the shoe fell from the sky. My brain neglected to inform my heart this time. I saw this scene…

  • Raise the flag

    I will hold my head high. I refuse to allow you to see me cry. The emotions will burn a hole through me before I allow another victory. One swift tear is all it took to break me. You stood idol and watched me shatter. All I ever wanted was…

  • Gemini

    It all became clear. The very moment the words were uttered. It was a ruse, a masked tale of two faces. You love me. You hate me. You want to kill me. Nothing is worse than a battle inside one’s mind. We’ve loved. We’ve fought. We’ve made up. One single-paled…

  • Until dawn 

    This pounding within my chest,  An outrage that shall not rest.  Pixilated images of stones thrown to Juliette’s moonlit shadow.  Dawn has risen as the owl zones in on its final  mouse.   A drum goes off and my heart beats swiftly.  An anger of ill-importance that’s never received due process. 

  • Sneak peak : Book 2 on the rise

         It has been a few months since my dad and I moved from the east coast. I wasn’t quite sure what was going to happen when I moved here, or if I would like it. I had gotten used to the hostility of the people in the city…