Nicole Johnson

Category: poetry

  • Two souls are better than one

    Drip, drip, dripping One by one the tears slip through dampened lashes Trailing down my cheeks and past my quivering lips. It is not enough to know that I’m truly sorry? My body shakes from the constant agony of your departure. My soul impaired and ghastly Pitter, patter and it…

  • Bad Girls Rule The World

    We can pretend it’s the goodness within her heart that keeps her around. You don’t see what I see when you’re not around. I’ve sat back within the chair that rocks as she pour her emptied soul into the people And they fall to their knees blinded by the rays…

  • skyline

    It was the eve into the midnight sky Where I stood up once I realized Nothing at all was what it once seemed. We sat side by side, limbs not touching– not even for a mere greeting. You looked at me and my eyes remained on the sky. “Forgive me,”…

  • Scattered Showers

    A moment of happiness surfaced upon my face, As the creases of the desert filled with rain. I never imagined that it would feel so good to gaze up at the moonless sky, And for once not have to hide. Here I can be who I am and not pretend.…

  • Mommy’s dream

    You used to hold my hand so tight. It felt like the tendons would snap. But the pain alone was enough to know I was still alive. We sat across from one another and only you would know what I was thinking My expressions were hard to stifle and yet…