Contest Nominees

Things won’t always be easy
It’s okay not to be okay
You don’t have to fake a smile
...

​​​​​My emptiness is as vast as the oceans that drown
my sorrowful heart
Bewildering youth...

We lived young free and fun
Then street lights came on &
we had to return home
...

My plane is parked at the bottom of the garden,
I can take you anywhere you set your heart on,...

75 years ago I landed on a beach in France
Not for a holiday and not for romance
Me...

What if I told you that light was night and dark was day?
That we are being told to believe its not...

You grow up in a family of two.
The team,
as your mom called you since before you opened your...

The keyboard is your cape,
You hide, as you type your hate,
Pretending to be someone you're...

When I was eighteen I found my Freedom,
well that's how it seemed
but looking back I realise...

My home and my vacation
My sun and my rain
My destruction and my salvation
The cure...

I will be like the eye of a hurricane…
in the midst of your pain and destruction of it all -...

A man worked in a laundromat,
Pressing clothes faster than any man can,
He had a legendary...

Let me bleed on this paper,
With dark blue ink.
Let it flow evenly, or chaotically; the words...

What an amazing race we are, the heartaches, the breakups all them hurtful scars.
When it comes that...

I walked through the door
They said "Please, sit down"
"We've got some bad news,
It's...

it feels like she grabbed my heart,
and held it so gently, and always had it.
but in reality...

Every 40 seconds someone kills themself.
That does not including the many failed attempts.
...