A Hungry Black Hole
"Is there a problem?" Sally hated this question most of every four word combination someone could think of. Not only because her dad said the same words when he launched her and her rocket ship up into the sky without her agreeing, but also because the answer was so obvious to be yes.
Her ship had landed on a planet that was just about to crash into the next black hole and all she had to safe herself was a ship with a busted engine and her ball sized (and shaped) pet Pedro.
Watch Sally and Pedro turn into planet-hoppers as they try, ill equipped and untrained, to escape the ever sucking vacuum of the black hole, that keeps constantly expanding it's reach.
Along their journey out of the danger zone they meet the robber Elias, who has lost his luck while trying to get rich on the catastrophe and is now forced to join forces with Sally, despite his hate for children and fluffy pets. He learns that taking without asking isn't right when his own spaceship nearly gets stolen by the boss of a corporation planet, that has set itself the goal to destruct Sally's dads business by getting rid of her and everyone helping her.
Sally realizes that her dad send her away to protect her from the very same corporation boss, but as she tries to call her dad to make peace, the corporation army is getting up to their heels.
Elias, Sally and Pedro face down the enemy with combined wit. Just as it looks as if they would be blown up Sally gets the idea of combining their two space ships engines to create a explosion.
The bis blast sends them of into safety, thanks to Elias steering skills. From the distance they watch the black hole close around the corporation planet and swallow it whole.
Defying Smile
Temptation arises from deep desire,
It starts deep in your heart,
It creeps up your spine,
Reveals itself in the moonshine.
Temptation arises from money: it's called greed.
Arises from food: it's called gluttony.
From knowledge: it's called lying.
But strongest temptation arises from you.
You are glue between my pieces,
You hold me accountable,
Make me reset.
Yet after every time I come back to the temptation that arises from you.
It makes me upset not to know exactly where you are,
Makes me upset not to know when you will be back,
Not to know with whom you are there,
I hold on to myself, let the temptation rush through, let it go back to an ebb.
But flood always comes back.
When you stand before me it takes all not to look,
It takes all of me not to speak up,
It takes all not to reach out,
Takes all not to touch.
I hold back, so not to break into your life,
Like a madman clutching his knife.
One day the steadfast fortress is broken,
You flash a defying smile at me,
The walls crumble fast,
Faster than I can stack bricks, I can't make it last.
Temptation gets the best of me,
I rush out to you and get on one knee,
Your smile turns upside down, into a gravely frown,
Baby the walls are broken, Temptation is set free,
It gets the best of me.
I take you to the fortress in my mind,
Stack the bricks up again, now plated and metal lined,
You scream and cry, cry for God and curse, call me a maggot,
The defying smile never shows up again,
So the fortress stays as it is, forever than.
Dark Sky
The Land was barren, the sky was black,
That was all we had.
Shadows sank into the soil,
More with each death toll.
Fires shot from grumbling slots,
Lights glow in the night like moths.
The stars gave us a twinkling eye,
While down here we fell for a lie.
God’s mercy had been asked in vain,
For him all had to be slain.
We didn't know which gate we stumbled toward,
Whether the belief was strong enough in our heart.
We knew nothing besides the gun we held,
Listened only for our names to be yelled.
Like one creature made of steel,
That even on its deathbed won't kneel.
The biting wind only fired its flame,
Welcome to us all, welcome to the game.
A show so furiously captivating,
In our agony we seemed to be melting.
Once the game was played,
Death certificates had to be mailed.
You were lucky if your parents got to know,
Otherwise you were forever stuck in the snow.
For my Great-Grandpa whom I never got to know.
Teddy.
He watched her in her deepest sleep,
Sitting beside her bed.
He watched when she counted sheep,
And the dog lay on his mat.
He watched her dance in joy and gleam,
He saw her being mean.
He watched her apologies,
He saw her being nice.
When the boy hurt her badly,
While he loved her so madly.
He watched all the time over little Ms. Klein.
He saw her go from small to tall.
He saw her toys vanish,
Saw the kids’ stuff banished.
And after all had changed,
When he felt her so deranged,
Not so little Ms. Klein came back, picked him up,
Gave his head a good rub.
“I have been so blind,
Can you believe? I wanted to leave you behind.”
Her arms pressed him hard,
He remembered the time she won in dart.
She shared the winner’s cake, by the lake,
With her old teddy bear.
For him that little girl would always be “her”.
“Oh, old teddy, even if I didn’t show
- Well - affection and stuff,
You should still know,
Even if I have been rough,
I love you so.”
And after all that time he watched her sleep
“cause you I will keep.”