

Flintridge sacred heart
Young Writer's Society
presents
Verité
2021-2022
MUD: Failure and Deception
by Ava DeFranco
Lace in letters
A bleeding high
Broken eyes lie sleep-deprived
And through the slipknot of your eye
Cracked my neck out little lies
Oh elation to infatuation pollutes a mind
And slowly lowly souls confide
In the safety of a crashed collide
And dirt fills in a mouth full
A mouthful once one doubtful
One hopes to joke that it won't die
Sunken up and lonely
I'll watch us as I Cry
And tears they turn to mud and stye
To a suffocated heap and all we are forever sleep
Regret and raw relief