Writing Prompt
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VISUAL PROMPT
by Adellanuki @ deviantart
Write a story or poem that could be titled 'My City on Fire'.
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I live in a city
That only knows heat
No Winter, no spring
No autumn, just summer,
And HEAT
And when the rain stops
And grasses form weeds
And children grow up
And we hit the streets
We work without water
Our bodies grow tired
I look at the sun and wish it would retire
‘Cause whenever it’s here
And the clouds are not near
We reach 40 degrees
And the city’s on fire...
It’s burning,
no more turning.
I‘m watching it burn down.
Standing here and I drown.
Drowning in my thoughts.
They‘re slowly killing me, no doubts.
I can‘t stop the process.
I‘ve never cared less.
I don’t have a chance,
to stop the fire-dance.
Flames are winding trought the wind.
But they will never be kind.
It’s fire, but I‘m drowning.
All the thoughts keep me sinking.
And I started thinking…
...
“ I was either going to die a hero or live long enough to be the villain, Wasn’t I. The little girl left in the fire. Clutching her little teddy bear. Abandoned. They just forced reality. The raging whirlwind surrounding everywhere I went. Like a wall all around me covering me from human interaction or even solemnity. All my life was a joke wasn’t it. You ruined it. I stand alone. Little baby, don...
Flames. Everywhere. Consuming everything with a boundless greed. I hear the shrieks and screams of my neighbors, fleeing as their houses crumble at the relentless will of the fire.
I myself only stand, watching. What else to do but watch as the very place I call home goes up into a raging inferno.
I hear a sharp snap, followed by the eerily merry crackle of wooden support beams burning. Climbi...
I was only seven. When they came. Smoke. Fear. Blood. Like birds from the sky, they flew away leaving the city in ruin and taking my parents. They left the city burning up, the deadly fumes killing many at a time. I have remembered that day ever since, ever since I was abandoned.
I sat hunched over in a dark alleyway, grasping my teddy bear. Tears streamed down my face. Until someone touched my ...
The world is burning
But they tell me I’m wrong
As oceans rise
And kingdoms of plastic conquer more land
I am slowly choking
While the world dies
Trapped by my own knowledge
Watching everyone waiting to see who will put out the fire first
While they add more kerosene to the pile
In the very City I love
Things are falling apart
I pass people with beds of concrete
While guns are being used like...
Brick by brick,
We tore down the
Monument of oppression.
Years of breaking
Our backs without
Mercy had led to this.
We would support
Them no longer.
This towering prison,
Made from our labor,
Had held the establishment,
Caressed the egos
Of our standard bearers.
It had stood for
Generations, staring
Down at us with its
Opulence.
Now, all that was left
Was a few crumbling walls.
But that isn’t en...
I would be a great seamstress.
I weave very well,
I could spin something, from nothing,
I could make gold from straw.
I’m quite like Rumpelstiltskin.
Nobody knows my name.
I’ll offer you my friendship,
My services,
But if you get too close I’ll run away.
I’m selfish too.
It’ll come at a price.
Don’t you know I must be everything to you?
As you are to me?
Don’t you know the rules
Of the game I am...
The war has been going on for years! Don’t you think it’s time to put an end to it? Don’t you hear the news, about how terrible it’s becoming?
Well, Farran, one of the greatest countries, is now recruiting from all over! Please come save the women, the children, the sick, the elderly. They need your help, in ending this war.
Will you come to help Farran win the war? Will you enlist? Will you...
My city is burning to light up your sky,
shrines turn to debris in the blink of an eye.
Desperate for cobalt, your thirst never quenched,
across the black borders you can't feel the stench
of rotting flesh staining the floor,
the broken lock on our back door.
The priveleged watch from the bench,
'cause it isn't a crisis
until there's a war.
Tell me where will you run
when we're done bleeding dry...