Storyboarding.

I've decided to start working on my crossover sequel again. A major portion of the story involves the usage of music, and because of that I decided that the two crossover characters needed soul songs.

Luca is the dark spirit of destruction, chaos, and turbulence. Phil is the white spirit of reconstruction, revival, and comfort. These are their soul songs.

Luca's Soul Song: Dark Spirit

Ablaze,
Set the world aflame.
Awaken,
The demons within your name.

Ruined life in one explosion
Destroyed this soul in the course of a night
Love fell victim to corrosion
From destiny the spirit dares to flight.

Dark Spirit is the entity
That lives within this twisted heart
Dark Spirit, you can only see
How the world's meant to fall apart.

And yet Dark Spirit tries to love
The purest essence of its opposite
Claiming it fate from heavens above
But can white energy love Dark Spirit?

Set the world ablaze with fiery rage
From the skies falls crimson rain
Tormented spirit released from a tiny cage
Wanting only to spread its lifelong pain.

It is a Dark Spirit that lives a lie.
In never-ending conflict of right or wrong
And Dark Spirit now emits its cry
In the form of an evil soul song.

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Phil's Soul Song: White Spirit

Trying to make a living in silence
But unsuccessful, moving on anyway.
Fixing the wounds of all the violence
Desiring nothing but a better day.

The White Spirit emits a lovely song
A source of comfort and consolation
With silver skills that rights all wrongs
And erases all the devastation.

All the spirit aims for is to please
The world around it forever more
Always does its best to calm and ease
The one and only that it adores.

White Spirit tangles with a darker force
And together the two begin to blend
While not always agreeing, of course
What one destroys, the other mends.

The White Spirit is large of heart
Makes sure to spread its power to one and all
Consoling the world before it comes apart
Making sure to catch anyone who dares to fall.

The song of the White Spirit echoes distantly
In the ears of those who can hear it sing
And the song will play on eternally
For the White Spirit, joy it always brings.

What have they done to you?

I know that it's not normal protocol for the child to want something for Mother's Day, but I do. I want my mother back... I want my amazing, wonderful, loving, caring, loyal mother back.

Where did she go? What have they done to her?

I have to make a confession:

I found the note earlier today.

I stumbled across it due to curiosity and boredom. I wish I hadn't. I read this note and felt a chilling wave of nausea and sorrow that I couldn't possibly describe and hopefully will never have to replicate. How long has it been this way, and why haven't you asked us to help you?

Did my episode back in March not do anything to you? This is like watching myself back a few months ago. This is almost exactly what happened to me... It's like stepping back in time. The worst image of all...

I remember my hallucination of you. My wicked hallucination of you looking up at the ceiling of my room, crying, pleading with me why. The image that scared me the most is now coming back to haunt me in the worst possible way.

What have they done to you? Everything seemed to be going so well yesterday, and now today you seem to have fallen completely apart. You're pushing away everyone who loves and cares the most for you. It's like someone has kidnapped you and took you away forever.

And I just want my mother back. I miss her so much that it hurts. I hope she never forgets that I love her, and I hope she knows that I'm so, so sorry I wasn't aware. That I wasn't close enough to her to see the signs. And I hope one day she can forgive me for my shortcomings.

I miss you, Mom. Please come back soon.

My first piece in quite the time...

Inspired by... things. And feelings. And reality.

Sweet Dream Nightmare

"Open your eyes," the voice declares
In a voice sweet as symphony
He awakens to find her standing there
Just as real as she could ever be.

He blinks a few times at this girl
Standing before him just inches away
Inside her eyes is his whole wide world
And seeing her has just made his day.

He springs forward to grasp her tight
Bringing his loving arms to caress her so
Unbelieving she is there in sight
Refusing now to ever let her go...

He closes his eyes to fight back crying
Happy tears that had waited for so long...
Only to wake up in real life sighing
That again reality has proven him wrong.

The fact of the matter was, she was a dream
A mirage of a love so strong but far away
He blinks a few times, so real she had seemed!
But now he has to start his actual day.

He lays his head down in his bed
And curls up tightly facing one side
Closing his eyes tightly with tears to be shed
Such emotion he normally tried to hide...

But in this moment in time
He allows himself a chance to be weak
Figuring that it can't be much of a crime
If no one else is there of it to speak.

And after a while the tearshed ends
And the stinging begins to slow
He's back to normal once again
But the feeling never goes.

He cups his heart within his hand
As he stands up to face the day
Love being something he'll never understand
More tears of sorrow and dismay.

She comes to him in waves of visions
Because she cannot come to him in reality
Each dream becoming another incision
In his heart. And are they meant to be,

This young and unfortunate pairing
Love so strong it spans such distance
A connection, to them, worth sharing
Even if the cruelest, truest existance

Says that they will never be one
That their arms will never embrace...
Yet despite all the pain that's done
Together this young couple saves face

And continues to claim that fate will see
Them through until the very end...
Until they are finally together in reality,
They'll suffer this sweet dream nightmare again.