I don't want to keep throwing poems in the general discussion or making my own dumb threads so I decided to just make a poetry thread for anyone that wants to churn one out. Personally, I get in some pretty dramatic moods sometimes and like to express it through poetry because why not? If I'm going to be a writer, might as well go the whole lame way and be a battered soul too.
Don't hold out on the juicy dramatic monologues either.~
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Entanglement
! I stand before you all in words written, for one brief moment
Feeling the pain and the cruelty of life as it hammers down
Like a nail into my coffin which grows nearer every day
Wondering, scrambling around to make sense of it all
And wasting my time with these thoughts, spinning its yarn
Thinking that this isn't thread, that this is instead a web
That has me trapped tight in its unforgiving grasp
And that I know, being here is the path to self-destruction
For the only fate of that, trapped in a web, is death
And so blind was I to dive headfirst into it as if I didn't know
! That, of course, when you've learned to trap yourself so well
You forget what it means to be free, to pursue, to live in earnest
And how ironic must it be that fear brought me to become entangled
And now I fear the entanglement itself, how careless one must be
Because even if I should break free, from the web, from my thoughts
I find that I wouldn't know the first thing about being free again
And while I sit here the spider continues to suck the life out of me
To make me wane and holler and cry the pains of my own stupidity
For I did not have to be here, losing my life force, my drive to this
Wretched fates tend to be observable by the party enduring
! How I would love for this web to be a yarn once again, to be free
To create something with it instead of being forever entangled
Though I fear the spider will manage to suck me entirely dry
Before I can grab a pin… and knit with my yarn... and create again