Hey everyone. I'm TaintedLogic, and I've decided that this forum needs some better ways of being more collaborative. So, in this thread (if things go according to plan) sharing your work will be contingent on reviewing someone else's first. Each post in this thread should contain a review of the work posted above you as well as a new work you'd like to share with the community! These pieces could be poems, short stories, movie scripts, song lyrics, or whatever! :D Please bear in mind that this might not be the optimal place to share anything that's over, say, about 1,500 words (2 posts worth of content).
Good luck; have fun! Now let's breathe some life into this forum again! ^_^
Allow me to get the ball rolling with a poem:
The Awakening
Sleep slipping through my fingers like time,
looming thoughts of desire in my mind,
I was carried up the stairs by echoes
of my dark thoughts.
Searching in the labyrinth of night,
I found the darkness at the edge
of innocence, the release of tension
from the grinding clocks of the day.
But the end was already near.
I heard a voice in my dreams
and it said, in its direct, piercing way,
“Come, friends, let us continue to be slaves
to the arrow of time.”
Reluctantly, I obeyed,
misguided by my own erroneous clock,
its flawed, irregular beat telling me
that it was not quite yet morning.
I dragged myself out of bed.
I looked in the mirror, haunted
with the image of this monster
I couldn’t quite take seriously
in his bathrobe and pajamas.
My face and my hair both have been pressed
into the mold of morning.
I leaned over and let cold death
jolt me back to life.
"Time's fun when you're having flies." ~Kermit the Frog