"Intro"
Hey, guys! It's me again. I haven't been very active recently. Sorry, I've just been really busy. I promise I'll update all my other stories really soon. Anyway, onto my poetry!
"Fragments" is a little creative exercise I did for one of my characters in my Order of the Griffin roleplay, Chicks of Destiny. It's basically a random peek into her thoughts and, as you'll soon find out, her thoughts aren't exactly a pleasant place to be.
This definitely isn't my best work, but it was really fun and I think it turned out pretty cool. It is meant to be read as a random stream of conscience, skipping from topic to topic as most people's thoughts do, but I have done my best to break it up into short sections for the sake of clarity. Each "fragment" has a short title and is meant to be spoken to her 'deary' a.k.a. Haze.
Enjoy her ramblings! :)
"Seconds"
Seconds, shadows
Minutes, lives
Such simple slippings...
But they cut like knives
Oh, deary, I've not much longer left
I'm wanted by all of heaven and hell
For such crimes I have had to commit
Such tragedies and awful sins
For you!
My one, beloved chick
"The Naming"
Oh, deary, follow
Follow fast
Seconds, stirrings, slipping past
The fear of things lurks in the dark
And haunts me like that meadow lark
The bird I killed so long ago
To see her blood spilled on the snow
To see what lovely corpse would lay
As you do on your lazy days
Darling, how I love you so
Much more than ghosts upon the snow
But shadows come as shadows do
To wreck my life and ruin yours, too
So, deary, run
Run as I say
They'll catch you, they will
The shapes in the haze
Oh, please listen, and maybe one day
I'll see through all of this terrible haze...
HAZE!
"Slipping, 1"
Slipping, slipping
What have I to lose?
I haven't any friendships or lovers or jewels
I have only you
My one son, my deary
Hold me, hold me, I grow grey and weary
"Him"
I do believe I saw him, YES
Your father, oh, I've seen him less
And less, and LESS
Do you think he's left?
For another love, another hen?
Such awful a crime it'd be to commit
To leave me while I sit and sit
And sit and sit and SIT
Waiting for HIM, waiting STILL
Oh, deary
Have I scared you so?
I'm sorry, dear, but you already know...
"The Return"
What's that my deary?
Was that you?
Or have you finally been replaced?
Foreign mind in familiar face
What have those wicked shadows done
To my one, beloved, only son?!
What recompense must I now give?
I try, but still, I live! I live!
"The Plea"
Don't treat me like a broken hen!
I still know how, I still know when
I'm still a mother
Still I reel
But still I wander
Still I FEEL
"Falling"
Now I'm FALLING
Falling still
Catch me, dear, or nobody will!
Save me from my hour of night
I lose my mind, I lose my sight
Then he returns, my only guide
My dear who still has yet to fly
Tether me, oh, keep me here
They stalk me, the demons of faith and fear
The one thing I know
I one thing I feel
Is love
For you and for a life here
A life in the present, instead of the past
A life where my friends and family will last
Where there is meaning in 'I LIVE'
Where what I take, I'm able to give
"The Lunatic's Lullaby"
They say, "See, she is not well,"
"That lunatic, that Mireille!"
See, deary, how the others are?
The raven and the meadow lark
The spirits dancing in the dawn
Who curse me with their distant song
But we...we shall grow stronger still
And combat the ones with the wrong-set wills
If we falter
We will die
And so, dear, please hold your groans and sighs
I wish not for you to see me cry
That's why I lull with a lullaby
"Slippings, 2"
And if I fall before you wake...
No, I suppose I'm only slipping
Dumb Mireille has lost her grippings!
Ha ha!
Ain't it funny, dear
Oh, Mireille...
You've much to fear...
"Conclusion/Good"
Leave me? Fine! As they always do
For shores washed gray with dusklike hue
In a distant land I cannot reach
Leave me to a lonely, final release
No relief, there's no relief
Leave me to grow dark and drear
What's that, my deary?
You're still here?
Good.
I thought you'd think so, dear.