Pause For Ten To Twenty, Maybe Thirty Minutes

Pause For Ten To Twenty, Maybe Thirty Minutes
By: Tyler Ross

Something about a warm shower

where I tend to reflect

and

wish

the most.

Never feel completely

cleansed,

but

something about being 

alone with 

the water's

drizzling sounds,

complete human 

silence

that makes

me

feel hopeful,

alive

and feeling

it’s worth

living at least one

more

day.

Trepidation

Trepidation
By: Tyler Ross

Uncomfortably still,
I lay stiff and deteriorated 

with tightened muscles,
fighting 

the darkness seeping inside my brain, 

as I stressfully mumble out, 

“I don’t want to die. 

I don’t want to die.” 

Minutes later, 

the hospital becomes blanketed with black. 

Like anesthesia and sleep, 

my lungs tread life one last time 

as my last exhale is filled with fear 

and nothingness. 

Earth’s beings hold the proof, 

the proof I existed.