Yay! A free-verse and stuff!
Um.
Look, I really don't know how a free-verse is supposed to work, so I just gave it my best shot. Please provide CC where it is needed. If I have it wrong, then I'd rather you didn't flame because that does horrible things to my self-esteem.
Do I even have to say the disclaimer? Can't I just put "dislaimer" and everyone will know what I'm talking about?
Disclaimer:
Um, okay, that looks weird.
So, yeah, this is about a person who appears so little... actually, he doesn't even appear, he just gets talked about, and only in one book, but I was rereading that book and I thought, you know what, this guy really had a horrible life, he deserves to be written about. So that's what I did. Enjoy.
it had been going so well
not perfect, perhaps
[ things never are ]
butwellenough
until you
F
E
L
L
I
N
L
O
V
E
the biggest mistake of your life
perhaps for a while it worked.
[ p e r h a p s . ]
but betrayal comes so easily
and so q.u.i.c.k.l.y
You must choose.
make a choice:
loyalty
~ or ~
love?
branch
~ or ~
heart?
branch.
loyalty.
they always
always
come
f i r s t.
she hated you for it
- of course -
but what could be done?
[ and everyone knows not to fall~in~love with a Lucian ]
anyway
you still have
the Clues.
the search.
surely
surely
it'll be enough
won't it?
.
. : : .
.:-"-:.
. : : .
.
working
working
working
c.e.a.s.e.l.e.s.s.l.y
because the prize is so important
then comes the danger.
rumbling over the days
building up
until
You must leave.
but
!
so close...
so agonizingly close...
hard
hard to stay and brave certain death
[ you and your work gone up in smoke like your ancestor so long ago ]
hard
hard to leave and abandon e v e r y t h i n g
life
~ or ~
search?
this time
this time
life comes
f i r s t.
so you leave
and you make it out.
[ barely ]
wounded
scarred
alive
but your work
!
G
O
N
E
.
everything.
the secret
[ you were so close to it ]
hidden forever.
but you're alive
and that's enough
right?
.
. : : .
.:-"-:.
. : : .
.
just the m.o.r.n.i.n.g after everything broke
after the ground split
and the sky tore
and your almostanswer was gone
and to escape it
you took r e f u g e
where it was safe
[ or at least, you thought ]
then the horror that had been chasing you
C
A
U
G
H
T
U
P
you ran to escape it
- of course -
up to where it was safe
[ or at least, you thought ]
and you escaped the tragedy.
did you?
forced to watch as others were
maimed
wounded
killed
bereft
hundreds of them
no escape for them.
and thus, none for you
because the image is stamped in your
mind
eyes
soul
[ indelibly ]
of the death and destruction that happened today
and you will never
never
E
S
C
A
P
E
I
T
again.
.
. : : .
.:-"-:.
. : : .
.
everything is broken
in pieces
your life
your work
your mind? perhaps.
[ it certainly feels that way. ]
imprisoned
for attacking a "great man"
a rival branch member
you escaped
[ - of course - no prison can hold a Cahill for long ]
but you didn't escape
not really
still trapped by your mind
your memories
it had been so close
!
only one
cruel fate
f r a g m e n t s.
everything
[ lifeworkmind ]
is fragments
d
i
s
j
o
i
n
t
e
d
s
h
a
r
d
s
of what used to be smooth
and cohesive
and whole.
in the uncaring light of morning,
screaming at the cold sky:
what's the use?
there is nothing left
and nothing is all the worse
for having once been something
for having once been so close to being
everything
to try
to fail
to
f
a
l
l
~ the tragedy of your past that you cannot escape ~
and then
at the height of despair the bottom of the pit the blackest hour
the answer
to the problem that died unsolved
to the question torturing your disjointedfragmented mind
so simple
!
and yet so complex
there all along
hiding in plain sight
the last piece of the great puzzle
clicks into place
finally
end
~ and ~
answer
elixir
b l i s s
Okay. This A/N is hard to type because my sister is leaning on my arm, like, really pulling on it. (She's hyper. Don't mind her.) But, yeah, please review. This is my first free-verse, as I've already said, so I would really appreciate reviews.
AHHH MY SISTER! She just hijacked the keyboard and wrote an incredibly random, rambling greeting that was 225 words long. She is so annoying sometimes. Anyway... please review!
Oh, by the way, I've gotten reviews asking who this is. Sorry, I forgot to mention: it's Robert Cahill Henderson, the historical Cahill in In Too Deep. Just to clear that up. :)