As long as I'm leaving Penana soon anyway, I figured I'd start dumping any of my miscellaneous old lyrics and stuff on here for posterity. Expect a few most postings on this in the coming months.
This next one’s kinda different, for a couple reasons. For one, it’s old. Like, angsty-tween old. For another, it’s literally a ballad.
A. Frickin’. Ballad.
And this wasn’t the first offense. Young me loved trying to pump out poetry, but didn’t understand things like moderation, so I just wrote pages and pages of rhymes, really pouring it all out.
Needless to say, I won’t subject you to all that. Fortunately, I never finished the thing anyway. It was going to be titled “The Ballad of Emon”, Emon being the protagonist, a boy with seven demons in his eye. His name was supposed to be “Demon, but not quite”, just like himself. Demon, but not quite. Heh. Anyways, the ballad was mainly his pity-parade, followed by his quest to rid himself of the demons in his eye. Only, upon finally freeing himself of his demons at the end of the ballad, he comes to realize that the demons were what gave him character and life, and by removing them, he had left himself as an empty husk.
Anyways, the two parts I thought were “passable” were the introduction of the demons, and the final paragraph, which I’ll post below. Enjoy(?)
Introductions
When I said “this world is nothing but strife”
Greed said “Buck up kid, there’s loads more to life”
When I said to myself “I just want to die”
Sloth said “Dying’s a pain, wait ‘till next time”
When I said to myself “I’d rather be alone”
Lust whispered “There’s a warmth out there you’ve never known”
When I cried aloud “I just hate myself”
Wrath cried “Don’t suffer the faults of someone else”
When I was caught up in all the dumb things I’d done
Pride cheered me up; “Look at how far you’ve come!”
When I was despairing of the person that is me
Envy said “You can change, just wait and see!”
When I was alone and empty inside
Gluttony called to me from within my mind
“Although I can’t fill the void in your heart,
I can fill your belly, and that’s kind of a start”
Epilogue
And so, rising up, I opened my eye
And gazed at the world, ‘neath an empty, grey sky
There’s no going back, the best part of me died
And so, with dry eyes, I broke down and cried
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Sorry young me was such an edgelord X’D
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