Ship in a Bottle

Secured inside a turbulent sphere 

Pulled to the left and pushed to the right

The water tilts me back and forth 
into an endless wave of oblivion

Where's the captain of this ship 
that has been too long at sea?

I hold on for my life even though it's never been mine

And I go wherever the current takes me

A Fundamental Lesson on the Importance of Loose Change aka Orphan Candy

Demi spots a nickel on the dark deserted floor
A dim-lit sparkled copper coin for Demi to explore
She's been collecting  "orphan candy” every day for years
With hopes that one day she can buy a ticket out of here
The other girls will laugh at her and call her "Desperate Demi"
Cause she seems to find a glimpse of hope in every lonely penny

There are girls here Demi could call friends but that word is just so fleeting
There are girls that would annoy a saint and girls that need a beating
They come a dime a dozen with the same hopelessness in them
But Demi stands out from the rest, the one inside a million

It's rounding nearly Ten O’clock and Demi skipped her dinner
Each month she loses weight and every week she's getting thinner
But she pushes on collecting candy even though she's weary
And by her 18th Birthday she starts to see things clearly

Demi wakes and packs her things wearing a smirk of freedom
The other girls astonished since they thought she’d never leave them
She’s liberated now and loosened from the chains of yearning
All the pennies she had saved were pennies she was earning