Role Reversal

A cut on your skin, yet someone else is bruised Role Reversal, you're in someone else's shoes

Eggs Benedict

Prepared by the wife

Just a simple man

Living a nine to five life

Today the sky is red 

Job to transport the dead

An incident took place three days ago

A girl too young was raped and killed

Gang banging neighborhood

Drugs sex violence, kids up to no good

Area Code demands respect 

kill conquer protect

Blonde hair against the violet felt

Soft eyes reflecting the skyline

Laid in the back of a hearse

Loved ones slowly dispersed 

Set out on a final journey in this world

Me her tour guide taking her to destination dirt

Suddenly I see shining lights

Visions of the wife and children flash before eyes

Walking through the light

Solace over my soul 

A field of sunflowers at my gaze

Haze in the distance still stands glimpse of a girl

Reaching out for my hand, firmly grasping it tight

No longer the feeling of a siberian winter's night

Failing to understand, lifesless touch so tepid

Now guided through heavens door

Panic, breaking hold, Shudder in fear

No, please God, NO!

Eyes awaken in a coffin

Grave Keeper seeking redemption

Commit the sin, repent within

Struggle to bury a past

Scorching heat boils troubled skin

Falling besides me, breath wearing thin

Her name tattooed 

Over his right eye 

Gang member, once a Crip

Forever a Crip till you die

Weight of a lifeless body

Encompasses mine completely 

Dead weight, I suffocate, eyes shut again

Shovel held tight, I elevate Grave Keeper I am

Digging through the mud

Trying to save a soul

Every single strike of shovel against earth

Sinks said soul into an eternal hole

Hell awaits this sinner patiently 

Screams grow louder frantically 

Furnace of flames welcomes body 

Crimes recruit devils new comrade  

Innocent child decends from celestial path

Heavenly smile peaceful aura

Hushes mouth before hint of sound

"Go back, live life, Funeral Director you've done well" 

I awake from deep sleep

Nightmare level now I can complete

Playstation controller in my hand

Role Reversal

(deep breaths)

I figured out how to beat the game

Author's Note

Have you ever played a game that was so hard you played it all night only to fall asleep and dream about it finishing it? :) .

Reviews

[kublakhan27]

I don't think I've played this game but I am going through a similar scenario with one now...it's Dark Souls and I'm telling you I think my soul gets a little darker every time I attempt it lol This is such a gritty and ominous piece though and it isn't limited to any one context...it speaks volumes to a lot of the unsavory episodes that have been in the news as of late...this is a sobering commentary that exposes a lot of suppressed sentiments in a morbidly elegant way...great work man :)

[KeeD]

Oh haha i have dark souls haven't played it yet. This isn't really a game sir :D Just the idea of how something can play on ones mind all day all night even through dreams and I thought adding the factor of reversing roles would be different and key and also can be perceived in an ominous way as you pointed out and also in light of different volumes such as putting oneself in another persons shoes to understand good or to experience bad. Thank you so much for the review sir :D

[kublakhan27]

Haha okay well when you play that game, this poem will become about that one, if you know what I mean :D Walking in another's shoes is always a risky proposition, but it can be awfully enlightening as well, whether one wants to be enlightened or not lol You're very welcome :D

[Carolann Dowsett]

Wow this is like a story in a poem in a story with a cool twist at the end. It is rather dark and mysterious. Another wonderful write. Kee.

[KeeD]

Thank you so much Carolann, I love the way your book is going too

[Carolann Dowsett]

Thank you Kee

[Christoph Poe]

I don't typically enjoy modern pieces of writing, let alone modern depictions of poetry unless it takes the more cryptic form. This, however, caught me off guard. I greatly enjoyed this! It sits heavily on your readers, leaving them with deep pondering thoughts afterwords. (I'll admit I sat and starred at the screen once completed.)

Amazing work! Looking forward to more.

--Christoph Poe

[KeeD]

Thank you for someone who doesn't quiet like this style of writing having such a reaction out of you is highly flattering, thank you for your kind review.

[Shaylynn H.]

It was... breathtaking, and I don't say that lightly.

[KeeD]

I've always love your reviews because you take every aspect of writing into consideration but for you to just be so short and sweet and say something as great as it was breathtaking, wow thank you!

[KeeD]

loved*

[Shaylynn H.]

It was the truth.

[Eve]

This was a very interesting write. Different, but very intriguing. I enjoyed this write. Keep writing!

[KeeD]

Thank you eve :) i like the word different, it gives me such pleasure hearing a reader and fellow writer say it :)

[Eve]

You're welcome. :) Yeah, me too. :)

[LA Lorena]

This was so good keegan.... you should be proud. A most brilliant write young sir. I like you more and more with each new piece I see.

[KeeD]

Thank you so much LL, I'm starting to be proud of my own work thanks to amazing compliments I've received from refined experienced writers like yourself.

[Be myself!]

I have done this so many times its not even funny. Video games are addicting.

[KeeD]

Haha so true that's why I had to write about it, I've never seen the topic covered before in any art form

[Be myself!]

Yea. My brothers and I love to play video games, but it bores them and to me its an outlet. Shouldn't that be the other way around? lol

[KeeD]

haha It usually is, but I don't think it should. Gamer girls are rare but oh are they my dream type of girl :P

[Be myself!]

Haha. When I told the guys at school their jaws dropped. Then I started getting friend requests and phone numbers. But they were extremely nerdy. I don't have a problem with nerds until they start performing things from the game in RL. Thats a major turnoff

[KeeD]

haha yeah that's overkill.

[Baby Ricochet]

This is really good. Great write Keegan.

[KeeD]

Thank you BR, much respect!

[Danielle]

This is so good, in my opinion one of the best i've read on this site. Great work!

[KeeD]

Wow ..what an amazing compliment to receive.. I as a novice writer am so honored that you even considered taking the time to read my work. Thank you so much. Have an amazing 2013.

[Danielle]

You are very welcome, I look forward to reading much more from you. You also have a wonderful new year.

[Kaylor Mason]

I once played Halo till two in the morning and fell asleep and dreamed of ramming my plasma sword through the belly of a Covenant Elite just as he was lifting me off the deck to bite my head off. I can still see all four of his jaws splayed out, quivering in pain and rage as I twisted the blade around and eviscerated him on the spot. I can still feel his claws, burying themselves in my shoulder--my feet were dangling far above the ground as he brought me eye level with him. As his fetid guts spilled out onto the pavement he dropped me like a sack of grain. I hit the deck hard, my body broken and exhausted after a long battle, unable to move. Barely even breathing.
And that's when some idiot grunt's plasma grenade landed a few feet from my eyes . . . I woke up when everything flared white . . .

That's a true story

[KeeD]

:D see, that's a masterpiece poem write there.. Finally a fellow gamer :P
The story you just told was really amazing i'm inspired by it. I loved your choice of words.. you've left me reviewing your review :)

[Kaylor Mason]

I didn't mean it to be a work, but thanks. And you're right, I am a gamer. Halo is the BEST!! I just recently got Halo 4--as far as I'm concerned, that one put 'em all away. It is AWESOME!! :)