Ladies of Horror Flash Project – #Horror #author Erin Sweet Al-Mehairi @ErinAlMehairi @darc_nina #LoH #fiction

The Ladies of Horror
Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge!

Tangerine Tears in the Sky
by Erin Sweet Al-Mehairi

Tangerine skies so beautiful

They are like the freshest juice

Running down my chin. It’s

Been forever since I tasted one.

We don’t have fresh fruit now,

The city is overrun by people

Only built for the packaged….

Anything. Only built for their

Needs of iron-clad schedules

And military awakenings of

Rules that clench most by the

Gentlest parts of their throats.

I ran. We ran. But there is only

Me now. Only me to fight for

Freedoms that should be innate.

The cost of liberty was too high,

The murders as harsh as the French

Revolution, which most of them had

Never heard of these days,

With blood rushing like overflowing

Rivers and body parts strewn on the

Ground, on the banks, nothing spared

Because our bodies are not our own

And how dare we fight for them, love.

I miss you, my dear. I wish you could

Be here to help me taste the fruit again

Because I am determined there will be.

I overlook the city now, and I see waste

And want and how it’s divided us, and

How it made me lose you, to their greed.

I know borders as such can’t break our

Invisible and forever bond, but to touch

You again would have been bliss, my child.

In your name, I will stop the killing and the

Petulant selfishness, the control, the chaos.

I lie awake at night calling your name out;

In your name, I fight for freedom of living.

In the sunset, I can feel your warmth, the

Joy we used to share, the laughter and the

Tears. I remember your heart and grace. I

remember you, and your defiance for the

deliberate pain people cause others. For

The way your kindness was a blessing and

A curse; and I curse them, then and now,

For the loss of you from this world, from

My life. For my sanity at its razor’s edge.

You are the best of me, my deep power from

This will pour into our war and I will emerge

Relentlessly driven to expunge the indifference.

You will never be forgotten – you’re sunshine.

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More about Erin Sweet Al-Mehairi:

Erin Sweet Al-Mehairi is an author, editor, journalist, and publicist with thirty years of experience in communication fields and Bachelor of Arts degrees in English, Journalism, and History.

Breathe. Breathe. was her debut collection of dark poetry and short stories in 2017. She has poetry and short stories published in several anthologies and online, and was co-editor of a half-fiction, half-poetry Gothic anthology. She’s currently compiling and writing several poetry collections, an essay collection, a short story collection, and a novel.

She is a chronic pain warrior, the mother of three humans and several spoiled rescue cats, and while born in England, now lives in a forest in Ohio while managing her editing, writing, and PR business.

Find Erin at her website Hook of a Book or on most social media platforms.