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“YOU DESERVE LOVE

This is for all of the kids
Who are feeling scared

This is for the quiet ones
Who never had someone say they cared

This is for all of the times
You were forced to stay inside

This is for the ones of you
Who have slowly died

Whether you’re gay or straight
Love him or her
You deserve to live
You deserve to love
Whether you found someone
Or have heard you’re wanted enough
Know that you’re needed
Know that you’re loved

This is for all of us kids
Who cry alone in our beds

This is for all the dark times
When no light had been shed

This is necessary
Because I feel you’re hurt

Now’s a time to be happy
And you have my support”
― Trisha North, My Greatest Fear

“RED

Here’s the red
The red of love
The fire that burns
Within my soul
The reddest red
I’ve ever known
The flame untouched
Ignited coal

Here’s the red
The red of pain
That stinging pain
No one must know
The deepest red
I’ve ever felt
The emptiness
The mourning soul

Here’s the red
The red I knew
That exalted fire
That once ignited you

The reddest red
I ever knew…

The deepest red
I ever knew…”
― Trisha North, Safe: The Places I Go In My Head To Feel Acceptance & Peace

“I was so sleep deprived that I could barely see straight as we walked into the soundless dark. I tried to get the boy to speak to me but he just continued walking forward without muttering a word.”
― Trisha North, FLAME: Chronicles of a Teenage Caster

“THE BRIGHT ONES

Even the bright ones lose their glow
Even the royal lose their throne
Even the dancer’s feet grow sore
I can see your spirit elevated
In a majestic leap toward the sky
I can understand now
Why we wish upon the stars at night
Sometimes the ones we love wait quiet
Sometimes we lose them in an instant
Sometimes we don’t understand the reason
I can see your mind reeling
Pictures scattered across the floor
It should comfort us
These memories
But right now I want to wage a war
Even the bright ones lose their glow”
― Trisha North, To Those Who Die Awake

“With just a tap on the gas, the car flew off of the road and skidded sideways into the encompassing woods. And I felt the sudden impact as the tires scraped against mounds of dirt, buried roots and jagged stones.

The blood-red moon lightly broke through the scattered leaves above us as we bounced among the hidden marshes that could have stretched for miles. But I had no recollection of time because everything, the sounds and the surrounding scenery swept by so quickly.

Gripping the steering wheel, his feet on the pedals, spine arched, and my hair whipping my face in the wind from the freshly broken glass on my passenger-side-window I couldn’t help but smile with the childish pleasure of being hurtled through the air as if we were on a rollercoaster built for two.”
― Trisha North, FLAME: Chronicles of a Teenage Caster

“LOVE IS A SUNSET

Love is a feeling
Best expressed through fleeting dust
Across the night sky”
― Trisha North, From Here To Eternity

“THE ONES WE LOSE

The ones we lose
Take more than themselves with them
As they leave, they steal parts of you
That you will never grow back
Like a tree pruned too much
Your blossoms are fruitless
But you will heal
No matter if it was peaceful,
Senseless,
Violent
Show me your hands
When you leave
I want to see the parts of me
that also disappear”
― Trisha North, To Those Who Die Awake

“WHAT IS LOST

Don't cry, my child
What is lost is never gone
Hold onto your dreams”
― Trisha North, Wordsmith

“LOVE IS ENDURING

Love is enduring
It is far-reaching and kind
It will never fail”
― Trisha North, Wordsmith

“AS I SLEEP

I fear that darkness
Finds me
As I sleep
When life is quieted
Midnight’s brutal feet
Cast upon me
Cementing me
Against my pillow
In a heaven
Of black roses”
― Trisha North, Internal Devices: The Faulty Drives Within My Mortal Hardware

“PHANTASM

I know the phantom
That shies away from the sun
He's a quiet prayer
From the heartless
The mourners
The no ones”
― Trisha North, Clown Town: And Other Spooky Poems

“BULLIES ARE AWFUL,
FRIENDS ARE BETTER

There will be people who will betray you.
There will be people who will bully you.
There will be people who will try to devour you.
Find the people that bring you strength.
Find the people who will give you courage.
Find the people who will fill you with love.
Because, they matter more than all the bullies in the world.
You matter more.
Bullies are awful, friends are better.”
― Trisha North, INK

“THE SUN

Suppose
The spurting sun was like a little snake
Bathing against earth
In a strategic flight
Its tongue
Hot across my face
Reminiscent to a summer’s eve
An unexpected surprise”
― Trisha North, Internal Devices: The Faulty Drives Within My Mortal Hardware

“I desperately wanted to say Please Don’t Waste Your Time on Me because I feared that I would somehow be the cause of his undoing if I allowed him to faun over me in the ways that his heart desired. He was, after all, Enlightened and I was a Caster. There was no possibility of his interest in me ever becoming anything more than a romantic fable...”
― Trisha North, FLAME: Chronicles of a Teenage Caster

“ALIVE

With every breath,
Every heartbeat,
Every moment -
I am growing,
I am learning,
I am living.”
― Trisha North, My World In Words/ A Collection Of Tales Vol. 1 Compilation

“AWAKENING

A moment awakening:
Clouds knotted across the sky
And I let the day flood in
Listening to the heartbeat of the world
As I gaze out of my window
Around my room are lullabies
Of light dancing
In glorious forms
Folded like dough
Across the hardwood floors
I cannot sleep
I must arise”
― Trisha North, From Here To Eternity

“BIG IDEAS

There are such small hands
In this world that are molding
Such big ideas”
― Trisha North, Wordsmith

“BLANKET

On our bed there is a blanket
It has been greeted by strangers
Become a desert to missiles
Filled with hurtful words and jealousy
A pitched hillside
Where hunched backs lay unmoving
I’ve crawled into its darkness
Night after night
Dove into the wreckage
With my lantern
Hoping for some light
At the end of this silent tunnel
I’ve spooned with the grief
Sifted through the ashes of our love
Been reduced to the seasons
Where people watch our bones
As they lie down exposed
Through our transparent cover
Still warm among the cold winds
But heavy with self-deception
On our bed there is a blanket
It has been greeted by strangers
Become a desert to missiles
Filled with hurtful words and jealousy
A pitched hillside
Where hunched backs lay unmoving”
― Trisha North, Safe: The Places I Go In My Head To Feel Acceptance & Peace

“DEATH

A woman who dreams of death
Is sitting in her room alone
While the clouds and the stars
That once saw the quiet fumes
Of war
Reach out to grasp one another
And stifle that fire
But the distinct forms
And multitudes
In blurs
Takeoff racing in the earthen boundaries
Never counting
The parts they killed
As they were air-driven
Within the velvet cores of her galaxy”
― Trisha North, Internal Devices: The Faulty Drives Within My Mortal Hardware

“Quinn knows what I am talking about… Don’t you Quinn?” His blue eyes looked glazed over like he was possessed by a dark entity as he lunged toward the window and growled, “And it looks like you brought some friends!” He turned his head creepily toward me while his eyes continued to glimmer underneath the iridescent lighting.”
― Trisha North, FLAME: Chronicles of a Teenage Caster

“THE LONG BREATH

This is the long breath
You take in to find peace
Your soul's only medicine
The cure to your body
It's needed to get through
The challenges life presents you
This is the long breath
You take in to find peace”
― Trisha North, The Valley Of Skin And Bones

“This is light.” He tightened his fist and then quickly opened his fingers releasing a magical burst of flame from his right hand. Swirling around his palms in different directions he caused the scarlet blaze to dance in thin air before he firmly clutched it and caused it to disappear, ”Light is the natural agent that stimulates sight and makes things visible. It causes things to burn and sparks the act of ignition…In the Mortal Bible in the book of Genesis it is the beginning of life...” The Professor opened his arms wide as he spoke with great bravado “‘And God said, “Let there be Light!’” and there was light.’’ His hands released a stream of lightning bolts that flashed so majestically that it caused all of the onlookers to mask their eyes from its harsh glow before the bolts ceased in their gleaming, “But remember God also labeled that light as good and God divided the light from the darkness…” As quickly as the flame flourished in his hands before, he used his fists with the same intensity causing all of the fluorescent bulbs to dim and the room to suddenly fall into complete darkness.”
― Trisha North, FLAME: Chronicles of a Teenage Caster

“THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH

The fountain of youth is found in the face of innocence.
Where laughter is not forced but echoes freely from the heart.
Where no tears are shed in vain.
Where opportunity is desired without oppression.
Where small hands mold big ideas.
Drink Forever.”
― Trisha North, My World In Words/ A Collection Of Tales Vol. 1 Compilation

“INK

Everything we know
The things that haunt us
in our sleep
The scars,
The joy,
The sweat,
The tears
Is just a bit of ink.”
― Trisha North, INK