Stasis
This is the first Anipoem I've written, so go easy on me, okay? This poem is based on my imagings of what it's like to be a Controller.
Screams echo around me,
Confusion reigns high,
The monsters have grabbed me,
Say they've stolen the sky
They'll win the earth, too
In a matter of time
Plunged into a pool
Within inches of drowning
I feel them at my ears,
My face, all around me
Until one crawls in and makes that tie
That cuts free will and grafts the minds
Since that day it has all been same
It is that slug, not I, ruling my brain,
The same tired battle day after day
Fear of loosing myself, loosing me
So soon I loose, and that hateful laugh
Is worse than any sort of death
Time wears on, grows old and weak
I've lost my fight, my will to speak,
I've lost myself; in my place this freak
Of the universe though, Nature was never
Quite this cruel to one of her own;
She'd kill them rather than doom them alone.
But I am not quite that gone, it seems
Although I'm not mine to cry or speak
I still have my own forgotten dreams,
To carry on that fading memory
Of that joy I long ago knew,
That thing they now call Freedom.
So though I am frozen in this Hell
Save one rare hour when I am not damned,
I will not give up the hope I keep
Though it may shrivel and whither and weep
It will survive, somehow, until that day
If no, when, the Andalites fire their monolith domes
To take pity on the primitives of Earth
Until that day, I will remain.