My poem on my least favourite heroes' journey trope.

[JFSOCC]

"Refusal of the call"

 

They don't deserve it you know

Those heroes all.

They whine "Why me!?"

As if some horror has befallen them.

 

I admit I resent them for it

What do you mean? "Why me?"

It's something you must embrace!

You are the fortunate one

you get to be special and unique

and you have the nerve to throw it in my face?!

 

"Why me?" If you don't want it, let it pass

to me! ME! I say to me!

Yes I'll gladly take your place

and stoutly face the brass

I'll be the chosen one

I'll learn the ways

I'll slay the beast and leave everything behind

Such Opportunity!

Yes! let it fall to me!

But never does it happen

and I get relegated to the "arrow in the knee"

 

A wise lesson to the kid, dumb farmboy he

And while he fails the test to accept the quest,

it wasn't even offered to me.

And while the hero hears wise words

he fails to pay them heed

and never know, I loathe him so

for getting to do the deed.

 

A damsel to be freed

in her hour of dire need

the man to take the lead

to sink the mighty fleet

while thinking on his feet.

and indeed it might be greed

but while I dream and plead for just a chance to bleed

more heroes I will meet.

 

Maybe one, one day, will see my gaze

the longing in my face

the fire bright, my eyes alight and heart ablaze

and be humbled by the rage

and as we part our ways

when I set him on his path

better do me proud, his fate embrace

or else incur my wrath.

[Zoma]

Haiku

 

Thy beauty like blade,

Its edge stained with crimson fade,

Of anger and hate.