english,
The moon shining bright and full
The carnival exuberant and ever so joyful
With elephants befriending lions
And little fairy-like acrobats leaping and zooming across tightropes
As if they were walking on solid ground
Majestic beings with heavenly voices
Voices seemingly lullabies covering all the noises
With their tails for feet
And scales for skin
Oh, what beings, Oh, so majestic
She roams around
And stumbles upon
Bright lights among mirrors
Reflections in caricatures
Curiosity surrounds
Innocence.
She turns to a corner and then sees herself
Wide
Wavy
Tall
Small.
Each distortion extreme
Yet strangely familiar
She escapes.
A future that she failed to foresee
She got old
Long gone are elephants befriending lions
The fairy-like acrobats have gotten frail
With hints of hesitation
Perspiring on their foreheads
What were once majestic beings
Traded glimmering tails for feeble feet
Stripped their scales for wrinkly skin
Denuded their years of facade
Murmuring, silently humming
Lullabies
Amidst the deafening silence
Around her now
Twisted scenes, broken pictures
Twirling haunted carousel rides
Blood-stained mirrors taunting, thrashing
Cackling fun house promises
Telling crystal ball fortunes reeking of failure
Wandering into the open
She is embraced by
Reality
Literary (Submission): The Night at a Carnival
The moon shining bright and full
The carnival exuberant and ever so joyful
With elephants befriending lions
And little fairy-like acrobats leaping and zooming across tightropes
As if they were walking on solid ground
Majestic beings with heavenly voices
Voices seemingly lullabies covering all the noises
With their tails for feet
And scales for skin
Oh, what beings, Oh, so majestic
She roams around
And stumbles upon
Bright lights among mirrors
Reflections in caricatures
Curiosity surrounds
Innocence.
She turns to a corner and then sees herself
Wide
Wavy
Tall
Small.
Each distortion extreme
Yet strangely familiar
She escapes.
A future that she failed to foresee
She got old
Long gone are elephants befriending lions
The fairy-like acrobats have gotten frail
With hints of hesitation
Perspiring on their foreheads
What were once majestic beings
Traded glimmering tails for feeble feet
Stripped their scales for wrinkly skin
Denuded their years of facade
Murmuring, silently humming
Lullabies
Amidst the deafening silence
Around her now
Twisted scenes, broken pictures
Twirling haunted carousel rides
Blood-stained mirrors taunting, thrashing
Cackling fun house promises
Telling crystal ball fortunes reeking of failure
Wandering into the open
She is embraced by
Reality
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