BETA MEETS ALPHA
BY LINDSEY SERVIN A white mustang in a purple haze. When Beta met Alpha, it set him ablaze. A panther with passion, pride and principle. Captured his heart with only a gaze. Her song. Her dance. Bemused him into a daze. Pleasure. Then Pain. All just a phase. Tether her. Tame her. A sundry of ways. She softened. She surrendered. A brief malaise. Try as he might. For that, due praise. But he could never alter her recalcitrant ways.
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NEVER
BY LINDSEY SERVIN, 2019
What if she never hurt? Never cried? Never fell apart? What if she never felt the sting of rejection? Never looked longingly out the window for one who would never return? What if she never broke? Never regretted words spewed in anger? What if she never failed nor faltered? Never felt insecure, unsure or afraid? What if she never crashed? Never burned inside with rage? What if she never felt betrayal so deep she wished for death? Never felt empty? Invisible? What if she never felt forgotten? Never felt abandoned or insignificant? Well, my dear, then I’d say she never tried. Never loved. Never lived.
