A/N: This is inspired by Seether's song Awake & Alive (: I love their music! So yeah. XD Oh and it's a duet type of poem. C:

Awake and Alive
This world is so fascinating...
Yet, it's so dark and horrible, how can you stand it?
That's simple, I have you by my side. You and I, we can make this world a better place.
But you can't do anything that you want to!
Yes we can, our souls are free.. We are free to do what we want.
It's all so black, the walls are too close for you to think clearly!
You're stuck in your dream, awake and see this bright, colorful world around you. Can you hear me? Can you feel me?
I'm starting to feel a warmth.. but that's just mere illusion! You, are the one in the dream!
Do you really not believe me? Stand up straight, and open your eyes... don't you feel alive?
No... I feel dead.


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Will the angels come and save me?
While I lay here on my back, huffing and gasping for each and every breath... I begin to wonder, "Will the angels come now?"
I look at the sky, it's so bright, I've never seen it this color... Can you see it? I look for you, but you're no where in site... you ran before you got caught.
Light streams in between the clouds, oh what soft looking clouds they are... are they really that soft? Are they truly as innocent as they seem and everyone claims them to be?
Long ago you had once told me, "Look at the clouds! What funny shapes they can be!" You amused me then, and I smile weakly at that good memory...

Time is just going by ever so slowly now. And as time goes on, my breaths get shorter and more painful...
Honestly, did you expect me to enjoy this "freedom" you gave me? What kind of freedom is this? It's not freedom... but a painful cage! How merciless of you..
Ending it all like this, ending me.. I am too weak to feel much about it. I can't feel my hands or arms.. Nor can I feel my legs or feet. I can feel this pain in my neck and chest, and I can still hear my thoughts...

Again and again my heart labors to thump, thump, thump. It's slowing so quickly, why it would scare me if I had the strength to feel scared!
Never before have I felt such a pain, as my breathes get closer to nothing... as I slowly inch towards that world, of nothingness.
Gagging me then stabbing me... what did you expect to accomplish? All that is resulting from that is just pain and more pain and fear.... Pathetic..
Everything I did was all vain I guess, all of it was useless... if only I could have prevented this, then maybe everything would have held more meaning?
Let me try again, please oh please... Whatever God, with my last dieing breaths I beg you... let me try again!
So many wishes I did not fulfill... but the most important was to live. Such a simple word, yet not all of us get to do it. Ow, it's so much harder now.. I am barely holding on.. I can't see, what is that?

A touch..? Did I really feel someone touch me? Is there hope yet? Oh please... please! Give me another chance! This dread that fills me...
No one can ever heal this major wound though, the one that injures and scars my soul... Please continue to breathe, please live through this..! Oh...
Don't die, I can't die! I must survive past this! And show you that yes, I can win no matter what! Didn't you say we'd be together, forever? Well what are you doing right now? Are... you dead like I almost am?

So much agony as I can't breathe no more. I am clawing at nothing, with nothing. What is wrong with my mind?! AGH!
All the thumps my heart used to do... no longer does my heart do it. It doesn't thump anymore, and this is hard for me to understand.. Why? Am I dead, already? Without a fight?
Vanity... I guess that's why this happened. I was so successful that I didn't even notice the pain you were going through alone.. My eyes.. they seem to work, what is this?! Am I alive again? Ah, but wait...
Everywhere around me... What is this wondrous place? I feel like Alice, but I'm not Alice. Then why, why is this wondrous place here?!

Maybe... ah, wait I see! I understand now... I am truly dead, gone forever.. and this is where they will condemn or approve of my soul. Wait, what if this is the end? And that's it? Death... can be a beautiful thing I guess.
Everything is so nice, so beautiful... So you did give me freedom after all... THANK YOU!

Challenge - Acronym
Can you feel the adrenaline running through your veins? Or is that not enough?
How do you stand it? This fear, this excitement that you feel!
Another second more and you just might burst with this excitement..! Oh how do you stand it?
Let go, and give it all to me... I will take care of everything..
Let me help you, oh dear one. I will take away this happy pain.. I will, take away the torture.
Everything you see now, you will see in a different light after I take this away from you!
Now, let go darling! You have to, in order to see this new world, that I want to show you!
Go on and come to me, come closer... step, by ginger step..
Even now it's nothing but a goose chase, a useless challenge!

A/N: This is actually loosely inspired by a movie I just watched, Crazy Eights. It dealt with the emotions of guilt... LOL. How is it? C:

Wow. Thats all I can say. You are now one of my idols. btw, i love crazy eights:)

Oh my goodness! Haha, that's awesome to hear! Ah, right? It was a really good movie despite the fact I didn't like the ending, but really I don't think the ending shouldn't have been any different LOL.