The Playwrights Last Melodrama

Welcome!
To our grand
30 years of music/drama
Masquerade ball!
Guests shall stay in the gallery
Where you may eat, drink and dance
For all is yours today
Remember, the author
May very well be one of you tonight! =)
Keep a watch, and he might surprise you
Have a wonderful evening

Drink thus all of your champagne
For tonight's a game
In which you will change
Wear thee mask
And be wary
The peering eyes
If your secrets are to be
Now, let up
And look around
See who's that lurking about

In shadows
The writer revelates
His last memoirs
Of quills
Whispering in the loom
And where the walls breached
The sheets flew
Across the ballroom
High above with
"Almost
Silvery like appearances
In the moonlight"

Listen
For theirs
Behold clues amidst pages
Of hidden truth
Learn doth
His masquerade and
Witness
A mass before a
Giant passion play

"Focus..
The picture of dreams lies beneath
An obsession.."
...and
None where like this
One particular fellow
I guess he stared to long
So focused he kept on
Revealing his love

That's when I realized
What the music told me
While champagne
Havocked within
Intertwined and introspective
"Conscience awakened
So they say"

He was
Laughing at the fountain
Perfectly blending
Amongst the crowd
A pretty cover indeed
What a fine evening it was
Until
I stabbed him
A hundred times, maybe
Perhaps a little bit less
It felt like.....nothing
Though
It was good anyways

And as clichè as ever
I
Made the fountain red that night
Like he did
That time
When I found my family
Hanging
Bled dry by their open arteries
Their paint upon the curtains
Forever portraying
His love for smashing red
Mediocre melodramas

Very good job man it's very eloquent.

Thanks Johnb

It was very refreshing to write a poem again

Eccer, excellent writing! Reminiscent of E.A. Poe's "Mask of the Red Death" in style and fright-factor. I usually cannot handle extreme violence (in any art!). However, when set in another era, it feels classic to me (hence, less personally threatening, because our real lives are indeed violently threatened!). I would say this defo has a classic feel! Well done. I will come back to read it again and again, to gain more from your excellent style.

Thanks alot =)

Just read "The masque of red death" what a fantastic piece! I guess a dude going mad at a masqurade ball is very common nowadays lol.

Yeah . . . no "masque" or concealment necessary. :l