Is this it? Well, Allow me to introduce myself…Mr. Right

I know you are the monster under my bed

I’ve wondered if the miracle would occur

and you would finally appear before me

I have evidence that you have been visiting with Sister Golden Hair

Her long blonde hairs have been getting stuck in my vacuum,

Under the depths of my bed

I found the hole to your side of the world

You made a classic mistake Mr. Right

Thinking my soccer ball could cover it, but now it’s soccer season.

My soccer ball is my baby in the way Sister Golden Hair is your lovely lady

I can tell you love her

Every night at 3 am I can hear you trying to whisper to each other

Both of you can’t whisper by the way,

sometimes making bang bang noises when you enter and leave the hole

Telling Sister Golden Hair to accept a piece of my heart,

Which creeps me out since I don’t know if that is a figure of speech, or if your really want to feast on my heart

You chat about running away to Mexico together

Leaving all your worries and scare quotas behind

You both dream of doing a night drive on the Mexican coast,

The colors of blue, gray, and silver swirling in the air

Sister Golden Hair feels terrible of the thought of leaving everyone behind,

But you’re not sorry, all you ask her is to let me love you

And as long as you follow me, everything will be fine

But what about the Money Honey? she retorts

You tell her you will find a way to get the money.

So, Mr. Right I am putting all my $40 in allowance money under my bed

Please take the money and jump in your car, play a party song (The walk of shame).

And start a new life together.

But wait…before you go.

I remember a conversation you had about your dreadful supervisor Clyde.

The one you called a Punkb*Tch many times.

Who thinks everyone is out to get him,

The Whoa Oh! (Me vs. Everyone) guy who really sticks.

Right when you quit, tell him Donna thinks you suck and pour a Slushie on his head

I hope you two love birds have a good life together.

Also, advise Sister Golden Hair to shorten her name to Golden Hair when you get to Mexico.

Otherwise people on this side of the hole will think you are dating your sister.

Sincerely Donna, a fed up 12-year-old that needs to get some sleep for early morning soccer practice

P.S. Don't chicken out! Go to Mexico and leave me to get some sleep so I can return to being close to fine!

1. Monster – Lady Gaga

2. The Miracle -- U2

3. Sister Golden Hair—America

4. Whoa Oh! ( Me vs. Everyone)—Forever the sickest kids

5. Stuck – Stacie Orrico

6. Bang Bang – k’naan & Adam Levine

7. Is this it – The Strokes

8. A Party Song (The walk of shame )—All Time Low

9. Mexico- James Taylor

10. Close to Fine – Indigo Girls

11. As long as you follow – Fleetwood Mac

12. Colors – The Rocket Summer

13. Wait – the beatles

14. Can you feel the love tonight – Elton John

15. Money Honey – Lady Gaga

16. You’re Not Sorry – Taylor Swift

17. Let me love you – Ne-Yo

18. Donna – FM Static

19. Classic –MKTO

20. Allow me to introduce myself…Mr. Right –The White Tie Affair

21. Night Drive – The All-American Rejects

22. My Baby – Jesse McCartney

23. Piece of My Heart – Janis Joplin

24. Punkb*Tch – 3OH!3

***

Luce, can you hear me?—

’cause I’m trying to reach you

and they’re saying

you’re long gone away.

They say, Lucy’s underground—

but they’re wrong,

aren’t they?

You’d not be caught dead

in some half-dug grave, brought low

by hunger to brimstone and flame.

No, no—that was never your way—

so I’m sure it’s only that you left

for the sky, to swim

like you used to

through the heavens’ blue eye, through

diamonds and vapour

with your wanderlust mind.

Please, Luce, say you’re up there,

that you didn’t fall—plummet to Earth

in a cruel wake-up call. Oh Lucy,

please hear me,

’cause I’m trying to reach you

and they’re saying

you’re long gone away!

***

This poem alludes to two songs: “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” by the Beatles, and “When I’m Small” by Phantogram. Both songs mention a Lucy, though in very different circumstances, and that disparity was how this poem was born. I basically asked myself, Is Lucy in the sky, or underground? And this was born. It’s part experiment, part hot mess, but I hope it’s able to resonate with you in some way.

***

#challenge

#poetry

#freeverse

#freeversewithsporadicrhyme

I can hear the drummer drumming

And the trumpets...

I know something’s coming...

Where there is light,

A shadow appears...

This is your kingdom

This is your crown

This is your story

Carve the greatest fairy tale into history

I say “I’ll rule the world!”

Identical words

How they feel brand new against different time frames.

We were young and we knew, and our eyes were alive

Like the sweet song of a choir

It’s burning through to my soul

We’ve heard it all before

In beauty there echoes a speck of our source.

Chemically it’s running through my veins you see?

My chemical romance...

One day you will learn to love me,

White Queen...

I raise my flags, don my clothes

Forget all and gather here!

A friend or an enemy!

Lover or a fighter!

Honest or a liar!

We are made from the sharpest things!

No one can take away destiny!

Wage this war against your faith in me

Toy soldiers!

Body is still hesitant

But I’m waking up, I feel it in my bones

There are plenty of ways that you can hurt a man

The arranger of disorder

Our blood red beating cold

This is how we like to do it in the murder scene

And another one gone, and another one gone

I don’t want to fight, I don’t want to fight it!

…But this is the world that we live in

So, I materialize the feeling

To carry on!

To carry on!

It’s hard to explain

You can’t predict how things will end

But all you can do is just to keep on advancing

The perfect golden time

Seize it with those hands

By dragging it to

The world of illusion

But I chased illusion

Then I watched it fade to black

...You’ll lose her in the turn

One of these days,

Your heart will stop and play its final beat

With the life held in your hands

Shaking cold

These hands are meant to hold

Burning love

The heavy world’s upon your shoulders

Heartbreaks

Falling down!

But the world is spinning round and round!

When you fall, everyone stands

Ten thousand people stand alone now

We never wanted it to be this way

Crown around it, thorns on it, cracks in it

Heaven’s gone

Dead and gone

What’s done is done

Ten million roads turn into one

Our existence tightly to the ground

What we have seen

As reality

Only exists

Within our reach

Ripping the chains of the remains of all the leaders

Even the sun and moon are not in favor of this side

But that’s just another trick to enslave us

Nowhere to go and no place to call home

How does it feel

To be without a home

Like a complete unknown?

Like a rolling stone?

I feel like I’m slipping away

Come a little closer, then you’ll see

Things aren’t always what they seem to be

It’s mind over matter -

Matter over mind.

But God knows, God knows I want to break free

Still I know I’ll see you there

As you awake

From your dreamy state into this world

So cruel and cold

So, we wrestle with it all-

the concept of grace

and the faithful concrete

as it breaks our fall.

One of these days,

The clocks will stop and time won’t mean a thing...

I’m waking up to ash and dust

I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust

I’m still standing here

With no vivid reason here to find

I don’t know which way to go!

I walk alone

Each brave step forward,

I take three steps behind.

All around the air did say

My lady soon will stir this way

I call out to you

But it’s still an echo without answer

Your miles away

Taken away to the dark side

Finally released from the cage that surrounded and bound

I feel myself get tired

Very slowly picking me apart

Walking forwards in the sun

Just past the sunrise

In the blue and silent sunrise

So blue, so blue, that sky so blue

You said if you could fly

You would leave all this far behind you

And soar off to the sky

Are you looking at the same sky as me,

White Queen?

I never knew that hope was fatal

Innocence is forsaken

Until I looked it in the eye

And now I’m not sure I am able

To reach the other side

Casting out the light

You were all I had become

My fingers reaching out

Can love that’s lost be found?

But, yesterday was all we had

One of these days

You will forget to hope and learn to fear

Lived and learned from every fable

In the name of being brave,

Though it’s just another word for being afraid

Oh, nobody knows all the trouble I’ve seen!

This world at times will blind you

The broken-hearted people living in the world agree

I heard a rumor that you quit this day and age

Bless your body, bless your soul

Pray for peace and self control

I will embrace my sadness

My body feels young, but my mind is very old

But I’ve got a cold tale left to write

The laughing tale of the fool

Nobody cares if you’re losing yourself...

Am I losing myself?!

In the evening the sun sank

Tomorrow it will rise

I watch the stars and setting suns

Straight faced with misery tonight

This night is like a nightmare

Darkness fills up

Waves of tears well up

Pain in my heart for your dying wish

It feels like falling.

It feels like rain.

On a night when the rain comes again

My heart crumbles at the thought of you

There’s a storm that’s raging

Through my frozen heart tonight

I shout out in the rain, but it doesn’t reach you

The White Queen walks and the night grows pale

So sad her eyes

You come from far away

In my hour of darkness

Standing right in front of me

Speaking words of wisdom

Pour wisdom in the cup so the truth overflows:

The battle’s won

Here is tomorrow!

Sleeping at last!

Let the night cover us all!

Step on the night and climb to the stars

Stars will never fall

And kings never die

Let it be

As part of the whole design

One of these days

Your eyes will close and pain will disappear

We’ll blow away forever soon

And go on to different lands

...But, with me you will stay

You will hear yourself in song

Blowing by one day…

Here to stay

Even when I’m gone

When I close my eyes

Through the passage of time...

As it began

List of Songs:

Half the World Away by Oasis

Lately by Stevie Wonder (James Graham cover)

The World We Live In by the Killers

Burning Love by Elvis Presley (Lilo and Stitch cover)

Let it Be by the Beatles

Missing You by John Waite

Hard to Explain by the Strokes

After the Love Has Gone by Earth, Wind and Fire

Move Along by All-American Rejects

Stars by Arrows to Athens

White Queen (As it Began) by Queen

Rain by KNK (translated)

The Ballad of Michael Valentine by the Killers

Blue Bird from Naruto Shippuden (translated)

Gypsy by Suzanne Vega

Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan

Riptide by Vance Joy

Come a Little Closer by Cage the Elephant

Mr. Doctor Man by Palaye Royale

I Want to Break Free by Queen

Bad Blood by Sleeping at Last

These Days by Foo Fighters

Goodbye Agony by Black Veil Brides

Hey Mama! By CBX EXO (translated)

Toy Soldiers by Marianas Trench

Golden Time Lovers from Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood (translated)

Panama by Van Halen

A Better Tomorrow by Wu Tang Clan

Give Em Hell, Kid by My Chemical Romance

Electric 22 by Beta Play

Change from Bleach (translated)

I’m Sorry by B1A4 (translated)

Daughter by Sleeping at Last

You Know What They do to Guys Like Us in Prison by My Chemical Romance

Kings Never Die by Eminem

Lost Boy by Ruth B

Sorrow by Sleeping at Last

Another One Bites the Dust by Queen

Rule the World by Walk Off the Earth

Radioactive by Imagine Dragons

When I was a young boy

I saw my daddy cry and curse at the wind

It’s like watching a rose just wither away

It’s like having a voice with no chance to speak

He said, “Son, when you grow up,”

“You’re gonna go far kid,”

“You will burn right now, but then you won’t regeret it.”

I think of you from time to time

More than I thought I would

Thanks for the memories, thanks for the memories

Yeah, I think that I’m falling for you

You are the only exception

I’m absolutely smitten

I’ll never let you go!

Now, a nurse in white shoes, leads me back to my guestroom

Can you keep them thinking of me?

Make me more than an abandoned memory.

Who can say if I’ve been changed for the better

I do believe I have been changed for the better.

But, because I knew you, because I knew you.

I have been changed, for good.

Songs Used!

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1. "Welcome to the Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance

2. "The Only Exception" by Paramore

3. "No Control" by Set It Off

4. "You're Gonna Go Far Kid" by The Offspring

5. "Secret for the Mad" by Dodie

6. "House of Memories" by Panic! at the Disco

7. "Thks Fr Th Mmrs" by Fall Ou Boy

8. "Third Wheel" by Set It Off

9. "Absolutely Smitten" by Dodie

10. "Cleopatra" by The Lumineers

11. "Disappear" from 'Dear Evan Hansen'

11. "For Good" from 'Wicked'