With Breeze of Grey (Pt. 10) by HeartsandMachineGuns, literature
Literature
With Breeze of Grey (Pt. 10)
This is too sudden. I stand, my voice raises involuntarily into a shrill yell, "What do you MEAN I'm going into the army?! I didn't volunteer! I didn't even..." I sit in shock, my eyes most likely wide as saucers and my rusty hair tousled. I expected to live a happy life, marry someone nice, work in the shop until retirement. Not this.
He sighs, and reaches a chubby hand down to pat my head. "Don't worry about it. You'll have time to say goodbye to your friends, and your family will get a lot of money." He says, without the slightest spark of interest or want to argue.
I leave with no other comment, except asking what time I need to be at
Masquerade Enigma (Part 1) by HeartsandMachineGuns, literature
Literature
Masquerade Enigma (Part 1)
The chandelier's light is finally put back on. The ballroom adorned in gold and silver has been left untouched, but there is something that has been disturbed. The guests are about to go back to their affairs when the chilling scream of the Dutchess Rose rises through the air and echoes through the ballroom.
"H..- He's DEAD!!!" She shrieks, as many of the bachelors and able men rush forward to assess the situation. Sure enough, a man with a golden mask lies with no sign of life upon the ballroom floor. The entire room is rushed out before the man pulling off the dead man's mask yells, "But then who is it?!"
The dark cobblestone streets
With cruelty and despair
The world runs its ways
Without remorse, nor justice
Nor reality for the sick
With white curtains and blue walls
The ceiling light
He writes away
At the horror befalling.
The sheet is his canvas
A single white world
The pen is his mastery
To ruin it in black.
The moments of freedom
He expresses in his story
Sweetest satisfaction
Befalling the plot.
He's locked in this room,
No doors or escape
He'll write 'till his end
and not stop after even that.
His tears create sorrow
His smile creates serendipity
His frustrated scribbling creates the wars
But then ends them as well.
When will he stop?
Noon
Red red, it covered my ears
It covered my eyes with sweetest demise.
Noone would save me, noone would look
At the beggar who's begging, the crooked old crook.
Not the seeker nor preacher, not the lover or friend
Could save this dear life from such a horrid end.
From the end of a gun, from the blade of a knife
Not even the rope, taught with my strife.
I tried, I did to save the body before me
I tried to survive with her love holding on me
But no matter what happened, she still was astray
And noone would know
Just what happened that day.
Where are the heavens, way up in the sky..
If they were here I'd see them
Not demons that fly