Just free verse (I'm too lazy to do rhyme schemes and all that jazz) poems that I wrote when I was bored. All the same, I'd appreciate any comments as I've never shown my poetry to anyone before :)
Disclaimer: All characters/places belong to Jenny Nimmo
Asa's poem
There are two sides to me
Light and dark:
Like the moon
That robs me relentlessly of one half
Each and every sunset and sunrise
By day
The light shines down on me
And it protects me from the animal snarling within me
That makes me do things I regret.
For whilst the radiant
Light shines down on me
I am the master and am ruled only by
My (somewhat compromised) brain
And my actions are my own desire
But alas this cannot last forever
For the light fades
And it grows inside of me:
The lurking shadows of darkness slithering up into my head
Taking over me
Ruling me
Overriding every merciful thought
Until there is nothing left but
Beast
With an
Uncontrollable thirst for destruction
An instinct for savagery
Nothing left but
Ugly, unloved
Beast.
But even by day
When the light shines down on me
I am ruled not by myself
But by others:
Powerful others of whom I'm too scared of to disobey
As a
Weak,
Pitiful
Human.
So that to the ones whom I long to help,
And to stand by,
And receive through them the friend that I never had
(That I need),
I remain
Just a
Beast