WRITING OBSTACLE
Submitted by Frankie Famighetti
Create a narrative surrounding a single emotion, using bumper cars as the central metaphor.
Let the impact of the collisions, motions, and thrills guide your prose or poetry.
Collisions of the Soul
We rode in circles,under buzzling light
Engines humming in the carnival night.
Each car a cage,each wheel a fate,
We sped,we swerved,we learned to wait.
Then came the crash,metal to bone,
A jolt that told me a Im not alone.
Laughter split through the static air,
But in that shudder,I found despair.
For joy was brief,as sparks soon fade,
And silence follows the games we played.
Every impact was just a disguise,
A mask for tears behind the eyes.
So I circle still,though the music is done,
Chasing echoes of collisions gone.
In bumper cars,I came to see,
The sharpest crashes in me.
