Miscellaneous:

[erikestabrook]

Parallels above a shelf,
the eyes are watching,
you hear the groin of a hungry beast,
and you know Beowulf's been conquered,

Night presses on and passes by,
adding a stench to the star-filled sky,
where would you be if there weren't heroes to see?
You'd be sailing at the bottom of the ocean,
I can't ask for you to prosper when you've built your own surroundings,
and everything you drove mad is ready to pounce,
and treat you like a meal,

Can't you feel?, past where you were taken,
the darkness hauled you in with a plot of its own,
to gnaw at your bones,
If this reality was certain,
I'd gladly pull the curtain,
If our lives were magnified,
I'd look into your eyes and say,
beautiful child,
the darkness upon you has fallen,
in my reality saving myself is hard enough,
only you can stop your pain,
no one else.

[PaintedDiary]

Dear Erik,

This was a very intriguing read! My mind went into several dimensions! I also learned from your poem, as I was not familiar with Beowulf. So, I did a dictionary.com search and this is what it said:

1. An anonymous Old English epic poem believed to have been composed in the early eighth century, principally concerning the exploits of the warrior Beowulf and containing historical and legendary tales about the Geats, Danes, and other older Germanic peoples.
2. The legendary hero of this epic, who slays the monster Grendel and its mother, becomes king of the Geats, and dies fighting a dragon.


That was really something! Upon completing the poem, for some reason, my mind settled with the notion that perhaps you were speaking of a child, scarred of the dark, having a bad dream, and / or scarred of the "Boogie Man", if you will. Thank you for the thought provoking journey into this fantasy.

{{~~**Painted**~~}}

[erikestabrook]

well intriguing is good and Beowulf is very common in fact most schools
start out english with th ehcildren redaing Beolwulf at lesat they used too but before I was born, Beowulf is agret atale in fcat its told matter of factly which adds to the intrigue, I read the book and it was agreat piece of writing
unlike a comic book the way its told makes it very believable