Author: Cassa Bassa

🇦🇺🇨🇳 inquisitive, observant, witty, a thinker, was a misfit child 😊

It Is What It Is

Writing with Little Charmer was very effortless, I feel we write in each other’s space and it blends. I hope you feel that way too when reading it.

From what happened
Between us last night
I have a feeling
This has potential

I even contemplate
to stay for breakfast
skip work
and love on you more
But after my first cigarette
I realised
for our art to be perfect
I must play the escape artist
once more

You see I cannot give you
What you want
Unless we can agree
To take it slow
I may not be sure
Of many things
But my fear of love
I know

If that’s not enough for you
We’d better call it quits
Not everything has a happy ending
Life can be a hit and miss

Teacher

You are my teacher

You taught me how to be a selfless human

You taught me patience and tolerance

You taught me snorkeling and rugby rules

I have a feeling that you will teach me a lot more

My heart is always full of your brilliance

My son

#cassaquote – 47

Perfect love stays

in the moment,

beyond that,

love is ruined.

Sweet Nothings

Please don’t say
You love me
If you expect
To hear it back

So many times
I heard those
lovey dovey words
They meant nothing
in the end

I hope you could tell by the style of the writing that this is another collaboration between me and Little Charmer.

An Artist’s Expression

He delivered her a gift

After the break up

His cum

On a canvas

Would she take offense

Or she knew it’s his way

Of saying he missed her

Artist has a strange way

To express love

Confession

I don’t love like I once loved

Without fear, without reservation

I run fast these days

From everything

Call me a coward

I accept

I am sorry

For making the unspeakable decision

To watch you drown

So I stay afloat

Mermaid Dreams

This is a collaboration with Michele Lee inspired by our shared love for the nature and friendship. I adore Michele’s work and recently read her novela Her Costal Cottage. If you haven’t already read Michele’s work, pay a visit to her blog My Inspired Life, I hope you’ll enjoy as much as I have been.

Image by oneinchpunch

A playground first encounter
two shy girls found each other

A friendship bonded by quiet giggles and thousand smiles

Best Friends Forever sealed with a pinky swear
while painted toes pressed into the pearly sand

Promises made when forever was cloaked by the misty gray fog, carrying the secrets of unknown tomorrows

falling gently on their straw hats and small hands busy adding broken shells to their sandcastle kingdom

where two mermaids could live
when they weren’t underwater exploring

The crystal blue above and the deep turquoise below
blending, swallowing shadows and fragile castles

as two little girls left the beach,

side by side skipping, singing, and hand-holding

half buried, a red bucket and spade forgotten

Friendship to me represents endless happy moments spent on the beach.

Two Sides of A Coin

Six sentence story prompt – text

People go through midlife crisis differently, regardless what’s their choice of vice or destruction, they are just fearful and dissatisfied people.

Hers were breast lift, weight loss and sexting, while his were asset acquisition, sports cars and white powder.

She had been chatting to her few regular flirts who were her son’s age on Snapchat while getting her pedicure done in the overpriced salon, of course she missed a few incoming calls, until a text message notification came through, “Mrs Jenkins, this is Doreen, I am one of the social workers from the Emergency Department, Royal Northshore Hospital. Would you kindly return my call regarding your husband Marvin on 88786719? Thank you.”

Her heart sank at the thought that he’s dead. Then a thought came into her mind that lifted her spirit up. If he is wheelchair bound, he’s gonna be mine again.

It Never Lies

Another poem to share written by me and Little Charmer. I hope you enjoy.

Do you really believe
Your own bullshit
Look yourself in the mirror
Tell me
Your face doesn’t tell
A different story

No Need to Argue

You say you
Can handle it
But that’s not
What you do

I saw tears in your eyes
Drowning in sadness
But you are too stubborn
to admit you are shit at this

I don’t think
I’m the one
Who doesn’t
Have a clue

You put on a brave face
Thinking I didn’t notice
Let’s be done pretending
Breaking up didn’t cut both ways

*This is one of the collaboration pieces I did with Little Charmer. I have always been inspired by her originality, writing with her has been way cool 😎. If you have not experienced her wonderful work, check out her blog Ramblings of A Fragile Mind.