Memories of the Broken and Damned

By M Leigh Morhaime

When we're young, every bit of lust feels like love and every moment feels like it's going to last forever.

It's when we grow up that we realize our memories aren't as clear as we thought they were.

And soon, they damn us into being broken. So how do we heal?

• Language: English
• Publisher: M Leigh Morhaime
• Release date: Mar 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005062712

M Leigh Morhaime

M Leigh Morhaime is an East Coast Native finding her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, dog, and two cats. She’s been writing since she was a child, dreaming of the day she could publish one of her countless stories. That dream came true in November 2020 and keeps going. While she is chaos, her stories revolve around the heroine and their battles to heal and love. Full time, she finds people homes and kills their spiders. AKA, she’s in property management.

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Tale

It’s a tale too often told

It’s a rhyme that can’t grow old

It’s the beat of a drum

Mirroring my aching heart

Rose

Like a rose

You have such beauty

But you set

A barrier of thorns

To where no one

Can break through

So one by one

I’ll break them off

And come on through

To live in your petals.

Dear Heart

Dear Heart

There’s someone

On the other side

So please stay

Strong for me

Please don’t shatter

Again

Don’t hide away

Please allow me

To love

Even if only

For a short time.

Stolen Heart

You stole my heart

But I let you keep it

You stole my words

So I can’t express

How deeply in love

With you that I am.

In your arms

I’ll lay in your arms tonight

And you’ll hold me tight

When dusk ceases

And dawn peaks

We’ll go our separate ways

And lie to the faces

We’ll go miles apart

And be different

From who we really are

Saving for when we’re alone

When we lay together

We’ll stare at the stars

In each other’s arms

Only the Dark

Its only in the dark

That your warmth

Can touch me

Its only in the dark

That we have comfort

Within each other

Its only in the dark

That I dream and ache

For the light to seep in

Send Me

Send me into your arms tonight

Send me all the love you have inside

Send me on into the stars

We can travel together far away

And never will we worry about

What others whisper against our backs

We can set our own pace

We can live our own dreams

And love each other endlessly

But when we wake up tomorrow

Back to our reality we fall

Back into the coldness of others

You fall into your own routine

And I fall into mine

We set off—alone.

Shielded Hope

I see you sitting there

So close yet so far away

I reach for you

Yet you carry a shield

I pound upon it

Trying to break through

Dents reveal themselves

Yet there are no cracks

I’ve let my guard down

Cast aside my barriers

Yet you cannot

I can’t let go of hope

For I’m holding this shred

For both of us

The Best of Me

Why do I let my emotions

Get the best of me

Why can’t I just leave

Good enough alone

Why must I always

Try to find a solution

Even when there isn’t one

Why must I