Dark and Light: Poems and Stories from Happiness to Despair

By Jessica Pack

Happiness, pain, love, loneliness, hope and despair. The poems and stories in this book are based on these emotions. We face them each and every day and they become the building blocks of our lives. How we cope with them is what shapes our lives. May this book give you a deeper look into their depths.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jan 23, 2012
• ISBN: 9781469740133

Jessica Pack

Jessica Pack is a pseudonym for Josi Kilpack, author of twenty-six novels—including the twelve-volume Sadie Hoffmiller culinary mystery series—one cookbook, several novellas, and is a participant in several co-authored projects and anthologies. She is a four-time Whitney award winner, including Novel of the Year, and a recipient of the Utah Best in State for fiction. She is currently writing regency and historical romance, and women’s fiction. Josi loves to bake, sleep, read, and travel. She doesn’t like to exercise, do yard work, or learn how to do new things but she does them anyway. She and her husband, Lee, are the parents of four children and live in Northern Utah.

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Contents

Angel’s Fall

From Me to You

Memories

Night, My Love

Sing

Who I Am

Circles in Life

It All Ends

Memories II

Rain

Starfish

You and Me

Falling Alone

Life’s Web

My Prison

Shards of a Broken Soul

What the Heart Wants

Suicide

Night Creatures

A True Friend?

A Delectable Nightmare

The One

New Places

Becoming

Devil’s Game

Ghost’s Story

A Vampire’s Love

This book is dedicated to my mother who encouraged me to follow my dream of having it published. Thanks for the support and for helping me keep faith in myself that I could achieve it.

Angel’s Fall

To love in lust

An angel becomes as dust

A tarnished crown

As feathers fall down

Temptations so sweet

Make the Heavens weep

The sweetest of lips

For one who slipped

Whispers of Heavens bliss

With every sinful kiss

The gentlest touch

Entails so much

Such a tender caress

From one who was blessed

The longest of falls

Only to lose it all

From Me to You

I gave a gift

That was signed

From Me to You

It was not big

Nor was it small

Yet, it could hold us all

I gave a gift

With a note that read

From Me to You

This gift was not expensive

Neither was it cheap

But, it means the World to me

I gave a gift

Signed only with

From Me to You

This gift cannot speak

Or even hear

But knows when you are near

I gave a gift

To one that’s true

From Me to You

I gave you my heart

Filled with hope

To be yours, forevermore

Memories

In our hearts

Within our soul

There’s a place

Where memories go

Way down deep

We hide memories,

In the dark

With our pain

With lock and

Key we leave

Them hid, these

Memories of old

But if we

Keep these memories

For too long,

Despair will come

We slowly die

We cry inside

Nobody to know

All our sorrow

But if these

Memories we must

Keep, our soul

Will die alone

Within the holes

In our souls

Our memories wait

For their escape

If these memories

We can let

Go, then again

We will be whole

Night, My Love

As night slowly awakes

She stretches forth her arms

Folding me in her dark embrace

Night reaches her hands

From underneath her billowy robes

Each touch an icy caress

The wind, like her breath

Brushes against my cheeks

Feeling like an eerie kiss

Night cannot speak but, still

She sings me bitter melodies

Full of fear and blood curdling screams

As my protector and my love

Night shelters me with her cloak of

Darkness keeping me safe from harm

As I feed she watches over me

Ensuring a successful, fulfilling hunt

To satisfy my bloody hunger

When Night grows tired, she looks upon me

As I climb inside my sleeping chamber

Preparing myself for day’s break

As dawn comes forth, my night fades

I lie sleeping in heavy slumber within my grave

Where Night’s shadows still remain

Safe, in my tomb, I await the return

Of my guardian, my love, my Night

Waiting to again feed my raging desires

Sing

Who doth sing