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Obsessed
Dedicated to my husband
My fingers sore from fighting, fainting so,
But never will I give this struggle up;
As long as I can point my faithful bow,
And sip the liquid life-force from my cup.
The curtain of the night is getting thin,
You look and sound so peaceful in your sleep;
I change my breast plate for a serpent skin,
And try my guilty joys concealed to keep.
And yet, I know, that in the morning light
On waking up, despite my earnest tries,
You’ll see the traces of the restless night:
My pale complexion with the bloody eyes...
And then you’ll realize what’s sad but true:
I can’t resist the charm of Diablo II.
Dedicated to my husband
My fingers sore from fighting, fainting so,
But never will I give this struggle up;
As long as I can point my faithful bow,
And sip the liquid life-force from my cup.
The curtain of the night is getting thin,
You look and sound so peaceful in your sleep;
I change my breast plate for a serpent skin,
And try my guilty joys concealed to keep.
And yet, I know, that in the morning light
On waking up, despite my earnest tries,
You’ll see the traces of the restless night:
My pale complexion with the bloody eyes...
And then you’ll realize what’s sad but true:
I can’t resist the charm of Diablo II.
For those who have only a faint idea:
Breast plate, serpentskin armour: types of armour worn by characters in Diablo II, a cult RP game for a PC.
A Shakespearean sonnet: A sonnet of 14 lines structured in 4 stanzas: 3 quatrains and a couplet.
Meter: Iambic pentameter (5 feet, 2 syllables in each, stress on the second syllable in each foot).
Rhyme pattern: abab cdcd efef gg
My first sonnet ever. The vocabulary is rather simple here and the rhymes more than pedestrian, but the structure of a Shakespearean sonnet is complicated enough, so I didn't want to make it more difficult for myself than it already was. Plus English is not my first language.
The part of my brain responsible for creation has been obsessed with the idea of writing a sonnet for weeks now and kind of hammering the rest of the mind and body on the head with it (OK, that's one awkward metaphor), so with much flailing of arms and such-like activities, the rest of the mind and body finally subsided and here it is. I hope this part of my brain will feel satisfied now >.<
Breast plate, serpentskin armour: types of armour worn by characters in Diablo II, a cult RP game for a PC.
A Shakespearean sonnet: A sonnet of 14 lines structured in 4 stanzas: 3 quatrains and a couplet.
Meter: Iambic pentameter (5 feet, 2 syllables in each, stress on the second syllable in each foot).
Rhyme pattern: abab cdcd efef gg
My first sonnet ever. The vocabulary is rather simple here and the rhymes more than pedestrian, but the structure of a Shakespearean sonnet is complicated enough, so I didn't want to make it more difficult for myself than it already was. Plus English is not my first language.
The part of my brain responsible for creation has been obsessed with the idea of writing a sonnet for weeks now and kind of hammering the rest of the mind and body on the head with it (OK, that's one awkward metaphor), so with much flailing of arms and such-like activities, the rest of the mind and body finally subsided and here it is. I hope this part of my brain will feel satisfied now >.<
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