OctPoWriMo 2016: Day 8: Porous

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My Earthly mind has become porous

Like an autumn leaf decaying on the ground

I have fallen away

My soul is gone from my body

My body still remains

It isn't right

For a mind to decay this way

I wish my loved ones didn't have to suffer

I wonder why this was my fate

I tried to do right in my life

I never was perfect

But my ending seems unjust

I know it seems like I know nothing any more

But my soul remembers you

I'm still here, watching over you

I've seen how you suffer

I can't tell you how sorry I am

For some of us the ending isn't fair

You may think that I don't care any more

But my soul will always love you

Even if my mind can no longer recall

Author: Gerry Clifford

Style: Free Verse/Monologue

Never forget those who can no longer remember

Dementia destroys beautiful minds

OctPoWriMo 2016: Day 6: The Dramatic Monologue of King Qweh of West Zecor

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The Dramatic Monologue of King Qweh of West Zecor

Ondina, does my intuition deceive me?

Can it be that you are finding tantalizing

That ridiculous mockery of a man

That abomination brought to you in jest

In his presence, you seem flighty

Behaving in a manner not at all befitting

A princess of West Zecor

I assure you that misery is in store for both you and he

If you continue behaving as a lovestruck maid

We should have been wed, my sister

Once you dreamed of bringing glory to Zecor at my side

You would have been my virtuous virgin bride

You chose the voice of misguided conscience over ruling our world together

Do not believe for a moment that my heart is broken

I believe not for a moment in such folly as true love

Your idealism will be your downfall, Sister

If you think you have found true love 

With a lowly thief dragged from the gutters

He is less to me than excrement

I would not hesitate to send him to his grave

With me, you could have had everything

I care not for such foolishness as love

But you dishonored me, foolish Sister

And now my only goal is to destroy

Everything dear to you

Ondina, before this is over, you will beg me for mercy

You will swiftly discover that there is no mercy to be had

King Qweh to the Princess Ondina

Form: Dramatic Monologue