Poems

Short Short

I know this isn't really a poem but it was really fun to write and people feedback on it was amazing. So in short this is creative writing piece.

It is an allegory.

Our teacher gave us a picture of one thing (mine a golden mask). The story has to be at least 250 to 500 words.

The picture you decide upon has to have its name in the story and mean something. Like my mask is meant to mean anything from psychotic to murder.

Looking through the small oval type space, the world is different, everyone views you differently. The mysterious aura clings to your body as you weave in and out of delicate dancers. The golden mask clinging tightly to your face, keeping your identity a secret from all those around you. The sickly-stuffy, humid air sticking to your lungs with every breath. Bodies move in sync around you,elegant dresses of bright red to a deep dark blue, blur and twist around your frame, your vision. Black suits and shining shoes, step lightly around the reflective ballroom.

    “A dance please?” But you're too busy moving through the swarm of bodies to notice the person besides you.  As you rush through, trying to find your way out, out of the living hell hole your mind has conjured up.

    The one with the golden mask planted firmly around your eyes, clinging tightly to your face.

    A brightly lit red velvet door standing in your way. The golden door knob reflect into your eyes. Your nervous, beads of sweat drip down your back, down your forehead, shifting your mask in the process. You know what's next and the excitement courses throughout your veins as you wait for it to come.

    The door opens, revealing what you have been waiting for. The walls splattered with the same deep shade of red as the door. The bodies hitting the floor, one by one as the man in the middle creates the same sin every single time. Elegant strokes across each neck, adding on to the ever growing liquid dripping from the walls. Splattering across your cheek and down your neck.

And then Anderson walked into the classroom.