WRITING OBSTACLE
A homograph is a word that has multiple meanings but is spelt the same way for each - e.g. a 'wave' in the sea, or to 'wave' at someone.
Choose a homograph, and write a short story or poem, in any genre, where you use your chosen word for more than one of its meanings.
If I Die So Do You
The blade of grass sways so peacefully
Unlike your blade that is piercing me
You drain out my life
Until my existence becomes a pool of blood that lays around me
Drowning the grass with the distasteful tang of my crimson blood
As my head lolls against earth’s dirtied floor
I know grass will be the last thing I ever see
Rage spikes adrenaline through me
For even though I will meet death, the grass will get to be free
Unaware of the life dying at it’s side
I reach out my trembling hand
Exaustion darkens the edges of my vision
With the last push of my energy I wrap my newly ashen hand around the blade of grass
And pull it from the ground along with its roots
I rasp to the grass, “If I die so do you.”
As my vision fully blurs and my body goes limp
My hand uncoils, and the grass and I die side by side
