Brave New World
Our class read Aldous Huxley's book, Brave New World. Since I really havn't read too much before this, it was a very challenging book to comprehend. Throughout the reading, I came across many vocabulary words that I did not know, but after a little struggling, I got the hang of it. I ended up writing a poem about the suicide of one of the main characters, John the Savage. Enjoy!
Time Is Up
By: Tatum Duke
Eyes open, slowly but surely
A tear, not felt rolls down my cheek
As I look around me
I perceive nothing…
A blur in time and space… almost pallid
Who is to tell me to live?
In a world of nothing but perfection?
Where passion has been destroyed
Singled out…
Put behind the fence
Like Jews in the Holocaust…
Never seen, never heard
Slowly dying,
A cancerous cell
Killing the rest
As I step up onto the old creaking chair
I ponder mother
Her problems
Her fears
I look up at the light
Shining bright in the nightfall
Not concealed…
Full of the love and compassion
That is missing in this obscure world
The woven, brown rope
Tied perfectly into a loop
Slides over my head
I felt the rough texture of the bristle cord
Slowly tightening around my neck
Water pours from my eyes
I lift my foot and sluggishly step off the chair
Plummeting
Into emptiness
By: Tatum Duke
Eyes open, slowly but surely
A tear, not felt rolls down my cheek
As I look around me
I perceive nothing…
A blur in time and space… almost pallid
Who is to tell me to live?
In a world of nothing but perfection?
Where passion has been destroyed
Singled out…
Put behind the fence
Like Jews in the Holocaust…
Never seen, never heard
Slowly dying,
A cancerous cell
Killing the rest
As I step up onto the old creaking chair
I ponder mother
Her problems
Her fears
I look up at the light
Shining bright in the nightfall
Not concealed…
Full of the love and compassion
That is missing in this obscure world
The woven, brown rope
Tied perfectly into a loop
Slides over my head
I felt the rough texture of the bristle cord
Slowly tightening around my neck
Water pours from my eyes
I lift my foot and sluggishly step off the chair
Plummeting
Into emptiness