POEM STARTER
Submitted by Oddity
Write a poem or short story about someone who lives alone in a bubble.
This could be real or metaphorical.
In My Bubble
In my bubble, I can do whatever I want
In my bubble, I can just do nothing all the time
In my bubble, I can always stay calm
In my bubble, I can know nothing will go wrong
In my bubble, I can waste time however I want
In my bubble, I can sleep as late as I can
In my bubble, I can eat or drink whatever I want
In my bubble, I can always be in pleasure forever
Forever, forever, I can just expect joy forever
And I don’t need anyone ever at all
For I am in my bubble, all to myself
To always enjoy and nothing else
And nothing else…………But just whatever
In my bubble, not knowing who I am
Or What I want to be other than just a time waster
In my bubble, I never do much, never change, never learn
In my bubble, where I miss out on many things
Many things that could help me withstand things
Get things, see things, other than just chilling
In my bubble, I never earned much, never did much, never had much, never really lived
…………Maybe…………. it is time to get out of my bubble
Yeah, maybe it is time for me to live my life
Maybe it is time for me to no longer survive in my bubble
Alright, I will get out
What, no?!
I’m trapped!
I-I can’t get out!
I’m hitting against it as hard as I can, but it doesn’t work!
Help, please!
Is there anyone who can help me get out?!
I don’t want to live hiding in my bubble
I want to live showing myself in my world
Please, let me out!
Oh, man, I hit my bubble too hard
My mom heard me
She’s rolling over to my room
She loudly yelled at me as she was getting massaged in her bubble and watched YouTube
She started to sigh out of irritation and told me to roll downhill
Stairs were removed after too many people died from rolling on stairs
Not because the balls’ structures were unfit for stairs, but because people were too caught up in watching holograms and interactive programming
Especially the suggestive ones, which is weird
Along with being kind of terrifying in its own way
Okay, I’m thinking too much
I then rolled downhill
And there I saw my dad in his bubble making coffee and shouting over a FootBalls game
Where the bubbles were playing football
While the athletes were in their bubbles and watching, doing whatever
I saw my brother in his bubble talking to a hologram of his girlfriend
Not talking, but was reading off what the bubble had for him
As he was playing a video game where you have to help Mickey Mouse find his Nestlé water and EA headset
My brother’s bubble moved away
I saw my dog in his bubble
As he was getting fed by his bubble
I decided to roll somewhere so I would be alone
I really thought about bubbles
How slaves who are suffering the most deceive themselves into thinking they rule the most
I feel alone in a world where everyone else just treats life like an endless routine
Doing things over and over again
Never thinking, wanting, or doing anything else
But just relaxing, joyous, blinding, destructive laziness
How can you be free when you have been made to be so lost?