OldSalmon
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Eines dunklen Nachmittags überkam mich der Dichterdrang. Also habe ich mich hingesetzt und aus einem kleinen Reim ein vollständiges Gedicht gebastelt. Es ist vielleicht nicht ganz ausgereift und hat hier und da gewisse Ungereimtheiten in der Grammatik. Dies war mir bereits beim Schreiben bewusst, habe mich aber einfach auf die Freiheit des Künstlers berufen. Also viel Spaß:
Into the Abyss
I am a traveler through time and space
Always looking for a place
To sing along all night and day
And let them feel just grief and pain
Sorrow is a friend to me
Who fills their hearts with agony
One day I reached a chasm full of screams
The music of my darkest dreams
A man stood there clothed in a cloak
Next to him grew a giant oak
With blurry eyes he looked at me
And asked myself who he might see
"A traveler" I told him "From far away"
"Would you be so kind your name to say?"
He added as he took a step
Backwards like he sensed the threat
"I have no name" I said to him
And on my lips I felt a grin
"What is this place?" I asked him fair
"And what is all the noise down there?"
He shuddered as he answered me
"It comes from those who ceased to be
They yearn here for their final rest
But they have failed the needed test"
"A test?" I asked him "What about?"
I heard the lost souls moan and shout
"A test if they were good and brave
And they deserve the afterlife
Those down there are those who failed
Who led a life that was all bad
They are trapped and doomed with me
To suffer for eternity"
"Then who are you?" I asked him slow
"How come of all these things you know?"
"I am the one the damned to tame
And I even know you by your name
They call you seducer for what you are
A heartless vicious monstrous scar
In the face of what's called world
You only live to bring on hurt
It is destiny that you came here
Without the slightest sense or fear
You will get punished for what you did
And on your body I will spit"
So he grabbed me and threw me high
Into the abyss which was nigh
And as I fell into the dark below
I heard him say in a mocking tone
"This is where you shall belong
To sing your lonely hateful song"
Into the Abyss
I am a traveler through time and space
Always looking for a place
To sing along all night and day
And let them feel just grief and pain
Sorrow is a friend to me
Who fills their hearts with agony
One day I reached a chasm full of screams
The music of my darkest dreams
A man stood there clothed in a cloak
Next to him grew a giant oak
With blurry eyes he looked at me
And asked myself who he might see
"A traveler" I told him "From far away"
"Would you be so kind your name to say?"
He added as he took a step
Backwards like he sensed the threat
"I have no name" I said to him
And on my lips I felt a grin
"What is this place?" I asked him fair
"And what is all the noise down there?"
He shuddered as he answered me
"It comes from those who ceased to be
They yearn here for their final rest
But they have failed the needed test"
"A test?" I asked him "What about?"
I heard the lost souls moan and shout
"A test if they were good and brave
And they deserve the afterlife
Those down there are those who failed
Who led a life that was all bad
They are trapped and doomed with me
To suffer for eternity"
"Then who are you?" I asked him slow
"How come of all these things you know?"
"I am the one the damned to tame
And I even know you by your name
They call you seducer for what you are
A heartless vicious monstrous scar
In the face of what's called world
You only live to bring on hurt
It is destiny that you came here
Without the slightest sense or fear
You will get punished for what you did
And on your body I will spit"
So he grabbed me and threw me high
Into the abyss which was nigh
And as I fell into the dark below
I heard him say in a mocking tone
"This is where you shall belong
To sing your lonely hateful song"