Do your characters hate you?

I will always be here
A poetic short tale 

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Here I am

The author put me under the pen
Trapped me in a room of fantasy
Trapped me in these words

Ink, everywhere

Scratch marks of original drafts
But, even in the void, I was there
A small character in an empty abyss

Placed in an hourglass
Watching minutes slowly pass

The author didn’t care
No, not at all

She just muddled word after word
Spinning a tale of endless tragedies

Placing me in the light
To be loved one second
Only then to be thrown against a wall of insecurity
She threw me in a cavern

Stuck
Alone

Here I cry

These tears being just untold stories

I want to be free
To never fall
To become alive

And to be loved for real

But, alas, this too is vain
For the author will never allow such

She will forever spin me in a cauldron of mishaps
A series of misadventures

Where feelings wrestle feelings
And fear is forever haunting me

Sadness taunting me
And heartache causing these tears to brim

I want out
Out of this spinning world

Like a bird
Free of this cage

To be held

To dance like no-one is watching
And to be loved like I’ve never been hurt
To sing like no-one’s is listening

Darkness will never drive out darkness
Only light can do that

Hate can never drive out hate
Love can only do that

I soar
And I fall

I break apart
And I breathe

And mend
And heal

Because I know
This dream will never be true

But I know something no-one else does

I know

That hope
Is stronger than hate

And love
Is bonded with mercy

 

So take a step
Onto the waves

Let go, my child
And may Christ only be the light that shines through us
Even though we face torment

 

Because I hope
Just hope

That unlike some
You will feel me
And show me love