This is my cycle paper. It is kind of an emo poem. Hopefully I won't make too many of these...If you've seen the movie the Prestige, the titles will make more sense to you. They are the steps to every magic trick.
I. The Pledge
There once was a girl unsatisfied
She could not be happy no matter how hard she tried
Then a magician came, he wanted her for his show
He said he could help her from feeling so low
She could be his assistant in the Disappearing Act
Oh the many people it would attract!
She gave him her mind-that sold the deal
She believed the trick had much appeal
II. The Turn
The show would begin at seven o'clock
For her, it had begun long ago, tick tock, tick tock
The magician began to do marvelous tricks;
Walking through walls and chopping up bricks
The girl was in love, she thought him wise
But the audience was not, they saw through his lies
At last it was time for her part of the event
The part that would cause all who saw to repent
An invisible something ate at her sides
She was beginning to vanish-it was a wonder to the eyes
No one protested, none were suspicious
Not a one knew the end would be malicious
Her skin became sallow, her eyes sunk in
It hurt to see her now, she looked so thin
But all the while, she just stood and smiled
Thus she hid her pain and all were beguiled
At long last, the girl disappeared
But for some reason, nobody cheered
III. The Prestige
The clock turned its hand, it was eight fifteen
We waited and waited but no girl could be seen
The prestige never came, there was none
I'm afraid our dear girl is gone
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that's absolutely amazing!
i can't fathom how people write..or rhyme that well.
but i must say gone doesn't work to well with none.
overall, it crushes my writing like a can and uses it as pedestal.
thank you so much! i didn't think it was THAT good.
gone doesn't work too well with none on purpose to show how people were affected when she died. it screwed them up, so to speak.
or maybe i just made that up to look smart and the real reason was because none doesn't have any other fitting words to it. or that it doesn't rhyme because my subconsious knew that it would come to a deeper meaning. you can decide what sounds better to you.
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