Every issue of the SMCC Beacon, the student run paper (website, and Facebook page) the Arts & Features section will highlight student poetry. New poets, and old, SMCC alumni and friends, please submit your poetry to the Arts & Features editor, we’ll put the first two entries in the print edition, and will include those, plus any others we receive in the website.

The poems below are written by Jessica Spoto, Arts & Features section editor.

Mental

Like a little kid, you reach for something with poison

Unknown of its danger, you are intrigued

Slipping out of a fragile state slowly

Your mind is numbed by the growing sense of power

Bubbling, building, boiling, overflowing

The days go by, your mind still unaware

The surroundings look dimmer

Eyes glazed over with your hands locked behind your back

Taken to a wasteland

Beaten values shatter the way you think

Slow fast paced breathes

In and out you exhale so slowly it almost hurts

Backwards to the poison

You slip, falling, breaking

Shaking, fragile, dying

Death of Reality 

Death brushes her skin

So lifeless she crashes into the hard wooden floor

The floor that drowns her in her own bleeding tears

In this dark endless pit she craves a sense of reality to feed off others souls

The laughter of children fill her ears as her mind spins rapidly with insanity

Little voices skreech the devils sins as her eyes roll back in hate

The room growing smaller and smaller

Lights flickering, on and off , on and off

She breaths so heavily her lungs almost pop

Hands like anchors weight down her darkened being

The past like a ghost breaks out of the shadows 

Consumes her presence and weeps deep into her body

Like a dagger that digs into her arm,

making smooth lines that release the despair she holds

Sinking and breaking and crumbling so fragile,

she breaks into pieces of jagged glass

She just lays there, left for the crows