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The Other Side. by Mynd44: 10:00pm On Dec 26, 2014
A song played in my head today. A song which is the sound track for the movie "Queen of the damned"

Try to take my fame. That's fatal
Try to take my name. But that's fatal
Bite through the jugular vein. That's fatal!!!.

Yeah, this is going to be a collections of poetry from "The other side"

Oh, don't be scared. They are merely poems.
Re: The Other Side. by Mynd44: 10:18pm On Dec 26, 2014
Silver turned black
The night stars vanish
The wind gets icy cold
And the silence prominent
The air is loosed
And there is peace(?) all over

Doors all locked
Windows shut
Hearts dampened
Fear prominent
And the first drop of rain touched

The sweet smell of dust and water
The lack of interference
The perfect serene neighborhood
They fear in the air
And the rain

The night creature steps out of the forest
Feeding is it's game
Death the result
Entropy the inevitable
And souls the food

Frozen thoughts in the huts around
Evil moves in the bush around
The fear they nurse now them surrounds
The hope of survival the innate motive
The creature keeps walking

Death is its nickname
No jokes about it
No stories either
Too evil for legends
An urban legend to scary to be told

Been killed a hundred times
Attacked a thousand times more the creature survives
Terror it's business
Soul feeding its goal
Here comes the monster that plagues the village

It sniffs the houses
Trying to find the souk which smells most delicious.
When you have a whole buffet to pick from
You might as well go for the best
Kids tastes best
But adults might do sometimes.

It takes 5 steps and looks at the sky
Even the stars seem to hide from it.
Its nose call it.
Yes they prey has been found.
Breaks into the house it does
Amidst screams of scared inhabitants.

Its walks slowly as they keep shouting
It finds what called it
A little child barely a week old.
Innocence is so sweet
Blood uncorrupted by the world.

Dinner has been found
The creature will feed.
And it feeds there and then
This is its prize
The village is his and the people.....food

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Re: The Other Side. by Mynd44: 10:35pm On Dec 26, 2014
Thud thud thud
Metal meets flesh
Thud thud thud
The butcher goes to work
Thud thud thud
His nicely sharpened blade says

Thud thud thud
Blood sips away
Thud thud thud
Flies perch on the flesh
Thud thud thud
Food for some folks

Thud thud thus
He removes the arm
Thud thud thud
He takes out the intestines
Thud thud thud
He chops off the legs

Thud thud thud
Nice good meat
Thud thud thud
Tender succulent fat
Thud thud thud
He recalls her screams before she dies

Thud thud thud
Its his wife Rebecca
Thud thud thud
And her lover Sunny
Thud thud thud
Food for some folks
Thud thud thud
Don't betray the butcher

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Re: The Other Side. by Nobody: 11:02pm On Dec 26, 2014
Mynd, do you want to make this thread a bigger collection so I can always sneak in to check for updates?
Ayamlaykorn
Re: The Other Side. by UjSizzle(f): 12:26am On Dec 27, 2014
Mynd44:
Thud thud thud
Metal meets flesh
Thud thud thud
The butcher goes to work
Thud thud thud
His nicely sharpens blade says

Thud thud thud
Blood sips away
Thud thud thud
Flies perch on the flesh
Thud thud thud
Food for some folks

Thud thud thus
He removes the arm
Thud thud thud
He takes out the intestines
Thud thud thud
He chops off the legs

Thud thud thud
Nice good meat
Thud thud thud
Tender succulent fat
Thud thud thud
He recalls her screams before she dies

Thud thud thud
Its his wife Rebecca
Thud thud thud
And her lover Sunny
Thud thud thud
Food for some folks
Thud thud thud
Don't betray the butcher
Geez Mynd, thanks for chasing sleep away angry

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Re: The Other Side. by Nobody: 12:30am On Dec 27, 2014
UjSizzle:

Geez Mynd, thanks for chasing sleep away angry
Thud thud thud
Chases sleep away.
Re: The Other Side. by prof800(m): 1:02am On Dec 27, 2014
cheesy Now this is poetry! cheesy


>>>Thud thud thud
>>>This is Poetry.
Re: The Other Side. by texanomaly(f): 1:58am On Dec 27, 2014
Thud Thud Thud

NICE!!

Good use of onomatopoeia and repetition. smiley
Re: The Other Side. by Mynd44: 6:05am On Dec 27, 2014
UjSizzle:

Geez Mynd, thanks for chasing sleep away angry
Err.....sorry
Re: The Other Side. by Mynd44: 6:05am On Dec 27, 2014
Brandnew2:

Thud thud thud
Chases sleep away.
cheesy
Re: The Other Side. by Mynd44: 6:06am On Dec 27, 2014
prof800:
cheesy Now this is poetry! cheesy


>>>Thud thud thud
>>>This is Poetry.
Thanks
Re: The Other Side. by Mynd44: 6:07am On Dec 27, 2014
texanomaly:
Thus Thud Thud

NICE!!

Good use of onomatopoeia and repetition. smiley

I don't even know what that means.

*looks in dictionary*

Oh
thanks
Re: The Other Side. by texanomaly(f): 9:22am On Dec 27, 2014
Mynd44:

I don't even know what that means.

*looks in dictionary*

Oh
thanks

You could have corrected my "Thus". Just noticed it. undecided

Nice work Mynd.
Re: The Other Side. by Mynd44: 9:25am On Dec 27, 2014
texanomaly:


You could have corrected my "Thus". Just noticed it. undecided

Nice work Mynd.
I did not really notice
Re: The Other Side. by Mynd44: 7:24am On Dec 28, 2014
Bloodshot eyes
Clenched fists
A job at hand
To make them handless
Harness their hate
Awaken the beast

High on gunpowder
Friends of no one
Loyalty bought with pain
Ending life the pain
They fear neither death nor injury
They take live to prove their worth

They are the story we all love to ignore
The reality we strive to hide
The pain of our past
The scourge of the earth
Armed with machetes
Even though guns are available

Intimate death is enjoyable to them
Personally watching the life snuffed out
That's what gets then high
They are the infantry.
Yes literally
The infant warriors

Barely old enough to be out of the house
But these ones have killed their own parents
Killed them they did
All to prove their worth
The infantile
The only ones without conscience

Blood they have become used to
Gore their sport
Amputation their specialty
Dont call them life's bane
They have spurned infants through rape
Kids that will be them

The circle going on
They have gone beyond the edge here
There is no rescue for these evil kids
They hunt your sleep even when you run.
These should have been the future
But they are not even past

A nightmare you can't describe
Or one you choose not to
This is real.
This is fact
The child soldiers of west africa
The 20th century infantry

Gallant they are
Fearless is their nick
Hacking arms and limbs their business
And loveless too
The kids turn monsters
Without a conscience to bring em back

Save my children
Spare their parents this fate
Save these soul less eyes from hell
Give the continent back a future
Hand them farming tools to farm with
Please save these infant soldiers

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Re: The Other Side. by Mynd44: 7:43am On Dec 28, 2014
Screams and kicks
Blind cursing
Trying to block out the pain
Thunder drowning the noise
The rain completing the horror
So it starts

He was cool and calm
Sweet and lovely
A touch of aggressiveness
But seem to hold her special
A girl's dream
Her personal piece of hunk

His eyes radiated love
He was protective of her
Made her fall for him
And obey gravity she did
She was the envy of her friends
And the object of hate of some

He never respected her
But who wants a man that will respect you?
You already have those as friends
Give your heart to one that is different
Experience the other side of life
Learn to live on the edge

Every 16 year old's dream but this night was not part
Another blow hits her face
The same loving and sexy hand covers her mouth
She is losing her strength
And also her clothes
All part of the horror

Fun for him
Can you really blame him?
She had all those friends to love but she chose him
He would take from her what she does not want to give
His conscience dead
Or just infected
It is a game of strength

He rips off her pants
Touches her roughly
He violates her core
And enters as she gaps for breathe
The pain made her numb
As she keeps fighting

She fights for dignity
Fights for her life
As he goes in and out
Oblivious of her pain
His pleasures his goal
Her pain her shame

She is weary
Just prays for it to be over fast
She had trusted the wrong person
Can you really blame her?
She chose to love
Is that not what society preaches?

3 days later....

Her physical scars are gone
Her emotional ones remain
She hates him
And hates all men
She keeps the secret
Pointless, he has told all his friends

Another statistics in this game of numbers
You will blame her for loving the wrong person
Some will express their frustration at her not choosing love from her friends
Some will call the boy a beast
Some just blames the devil
Circle of blames.

The deed done.
The scars stay
The hate deep
The reaction limitless
It is a theft of dignity
A rape of the soul

Inspired by Kelly Rowland's stole

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Re: The Other Side. by GIYAZZ(m): 7:50am On Dec 28, 2014
texanomaly:
Thud Thud Thud

NICE!!

Good use of onomatopoeia and repetition. smiley

Texa, why are you not talking to me any more?
Re: The Other Side. by Mynd44: 7:59am On Dec 28, 2014
^^^^
Another Angle
You never know how you end up in a dream
Or how you end up in love
He loves her
How it happened a mystery
He denies it
But then he accepted it

He was close to her
Close enough to see her soul
He had reached out with his feelings
But he got turned down
He was too "nice"
Not fun or spontaneous

In the calculations of things he was it
But he could not match the "cool ones"
Only useful as a friend
Never more than that
He could not make meet that standard
And he lived with his pain

He stayed friends
Watched her grow and nurtured her
Then he heard she was dating him
She obeyed the rules
When a girl gets a new guy she abandons her old friends
He heard through gossips
He was out of the equation

Hurt each night
Tears on his pillow
Hate welling up
But he kept his cool
It was not him although he resented the world
His mum's worlds kept him sane

He had no hopes of her coning back
He could not date her again
Yet he feels so strongly about her
And angry at the reason she turned him down
He leads the class
And still looks out for her

The news reached him
He slept with her
He bragged about it
Talked about how useless she was
And how she screamed and moaned
His pain complete, healing lost

His brain went numb
Washed with emotions he never thought he has
Hate, love, jealousy, anger and violence
Yet he did not confront her
Not his business he said
"not my business" he told himself

So he helped her with school work
She seems distant
But what should he do?
Lost in his own thought
Love is pointless
Life is unfair

Maybe he should switch
Become the other guy
By Obatala it will be so easy
To embrace the other side
And become the evil he is jealous of
Maybe he should

They remain friends
Each carrying his/her pain
She did not understand him
She still loved her molester
He was just a friend
Too nice and boring.
Re: The Other Side. by Nobody: 8:19am On Dec 28, 2014
Kelly Rowland's stole huh! Whoa that really is dèep
Re: The Other Side. by Mynd44: 8:21am On Dec 28, 2014
Silkmoth33:
Kelly Rowland's stole huh! Whoa that really is dèep
Yeah. That song was just deep and touching places I did not know existed when I first heard it.

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Re: The Other Side. by texanomaly(f): 9:33am On Dec 28, 2014
Mynd you fear me O! shocked
Re: The Other Side. by Mynd44: 9:42am On Dec 28, 2014
texanomaly:
Mynd you fear me O! shocked
Err....
Re: The Other Side. by Mynd44: 6:53am On Jan 23, 2015
Draped in black
Sickle in his hands
Seated on his throne.
Eyes black as coal
Cloaked he is
Death is his goal
Appearance of a ghoul
Godfather death.

The huge black dog
The poisonous plant
The black mamba
The amphibious toad
The black rat
The eastern diamond snake that rattles
The Egyptian king cobra
Hades the greek call him

The 9 ton nuke
The hunting knife
The .45 baretta
The desert eagle
The eye in the dark
The 100mm shell
The S3000
The troubled kid with a baseball bat

The immortal
End of all mortals
The portal
The all attractive portal
Constant with Change
Old as time
He is patient
Even gods fear him

The Grim reaper sit
His council is wise
His judgment sound
His action swift
His messengers loyal
His weapons active
He sees you
And knows your time

The one
The first threat
The last threat
The fear you fear
The one whose delight is sorrow
Keeper of the balance
Neutral he is
Zeus's brother, kronors' son

He does not need noise
He watches the lady take the turn
A drunken driver already in place
And anticipation awaits
Like clockwork he watches
All her beauty coming to naught
Nothing can save her
From the boogeyman that is his

She crosses the road
His looses control
She hears the screech
As he steps on the brakes
Her eyes widen
He is suddenly sober
Onlookers pause
She screams

Balance has been kept
Death has struck
Her time was up
And her life snuffed
Call the dark one evil
He will still come for you
He is around the corner
And in the eyes of the killer

Everything obeys him
You think not?
Everything will kill you
Just let him give the order
His words are final
When he calls, no appeal
The Grim Reaper's cause is just
Balance must be kept.

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Re: The Other Side. by Sierraloaded: 10:29pm On Feb 12, 2015
Re: The Other Side. by pekeyim: 10:30pm On Feb 12, 2015
Nice one.




Keep it up
Re: The Other Side. by iiichidodo: 10:30pm On Feb 12, 2015
Poems fi bon fe losers becaa i an i nu overstand wah mean or wah a dween fi brethren..they come een like calaloo..bush weed stuff.Low quality ganja unlike mi patois yarn wi mek yu feel cool and irite.
Re: The Other Side. by Nobody: 10:30pm On Feb 12, 2015
Buhari won't understand dis.
Re: The Other Side. by kulobyno: 10:31pm On Feb 12, 2015
how much be one keg of palm wine todwy for market?
Re: The Other Side. by DickDastardly(m): 10:31pm On Feb 12, 2015
Useless thrash from a reknowned saddist cool
Re: The Other Side. by 190: 10:31pm On Feb 12, 2015
Hope a remix by daddy shoki also makes front page undecided
Re: The Other Side. by Cutehector(m): 10:32pm On Feb 12, 2015
Who act d movie abeg? Na aliyah abi?

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