THE OTHER HALF
by Nobo13
Copyright 2011 Nobo13
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The Other Half
by Nobo13
Hello…
I don’t know you
You don’t know me
But there is a sense
That maybe we do
You’ve stumbled onto something
This world that isn’t quite what it seems
So maybe I’ll help
Fifty stories to help you return
Follow each one to the word
…Good luck my friend
Goodbye
The rockets are starting
Ready to blastoff
Leaving behind the dying Earth
Half of its people full
Half of its people empty
A sole woman cried
As she claws at the window
She leaves him behind
To wait for a lonely death
He stares into the fiery sky
Whispering
…Goodbye
Adult Today
When work became more than play
And we talked and laughed less each day
It seemed I forgotten something today
I lost it along the way
And as I think back to that day
Of the things we used to play
As an Adult may
I wished it were yesterday
Driving home
A car in a lamp lit forest chamber
Driving along lights like ember
In a starry night of December
Children two seated near
Filled with sadness but no tear
Silence with not a single word to hear
Ever drifting down the road
Onward they rode
Bound by what they owed
Hate
Mangled and disturbed
Betrayed and cursed
Boil them in the very waters
That have rotted your fragile heart
Eyes fueled by its power
Teeth excited by its taste
Hands become weapons
To smite them with your hate
And as it seethes away
You’re left without any satisfaction
Just empty hate
Knowing love
Star crossed lovers walk side by side
But neither walk in the same direction
Such is the cruelty of life
And of all those that try to love
They share with each other the pain
Of ever being alone
Of ever being afraid
So that one day
It will disappear
Losing someone
A world that’s lost its colour
A scenery that’s withered to winter
An invisible frost has settled upon your skin
That’s cold to the touch
Eyes that hold no light
Stare on helplessly
And tears no longer flow
In a desert of despair
Losing someone
You also lost your way
Left behind
We cannot return to Earth for fifty years
Until one day the ash no longer falls
Those on the rockets
Speak of the future and present
How they will survive
Yet, what of the other half?
The dying planet cries
Half of its people full
Half of its people empty
Remembered
Nowhere to be found
Yet you’re here somewhere
It’s like you’re gone off to a parallel world
It’s no joke…
I can’t see you nor hear you
But somehow I know
If I hold you in my heart
And cry out with my soul
You’ll find your way home
Remember?
Moment of truth
This is the moment of truth
When he will tell her everything
Tell her how he feels
Tell her how much she means to him
Waiting at the table
In an empty café
Waiting until he cannot wait anymore
And she never came
Unable to find her
He waits alone
It flows in the family
Where’s my textbook?
Here they are!
Argh! I forgot to do the homework!
Oh right, it’s for Tuesday!
But crap! My pencil case?
Forget it, I’ll borrow a pen
Wait, where’s my P.E. kit?
No, it’s swimming, I’ll skip
Where’s my bag?
MUM!
Oh here it is…
Where’s my textbook?
The little match girl
Cold and alone
Abandoned by all
A little match girl freezes in the cold
With nothing to her name
But three matches
She lights the first
And sets her neighbours on fire
She lights the second
And sets her parents on fire
But for the last
She saves for herself
Though…
Though you sit so close to me
You never felt my pain
Though you hold my hand
You never realised my fears
It’s like we live in parallel worlds
You never realised how alone I felt
But one day I’ll tell you
Because your heart has room for it all
Moon
Lunar scape
White as snow
A shining pearl
Keeper of the night
I find myself talking to you
You who is as cold as me
Both of us chasing the Sun
Yet never able to reach
But still we try
For you and I
We but borrow someone else’s light
A bit of fun
Hi,
Well, this is a bit of fun
You see, it’s quite hard to get these down to fifty
So it helps for, say…
Having material you can just edit
Poems you can shorten
Or just dialogue and monologues
Well, like I said
This is just a bit of fun
Losing something- simple addition
It's the soundless break
That painful snap you feel
When losing something
And in its absence
You try to fill its place with tears
Try screaming for it
Stay awake at night hoping
Losing something
It's simple addition
My cure is the best in the world
Just forget...
Just forget...
Little girl found
Trying to find her way home
But she never lost her way
Alone with her tears
Cold and alone
Soon her darkness is lifted
By a stranger from another world
Hoping no more tears would fall
As she made her way home
The little girl lost
Had finally been found
The boy with no lives
There lived a boy with no lives
He could not breathe
His friend had said
“Tell you what, I’ll give you my lives when I die”
So the boy with no lives
Waited and waited for his death
But alas!
The dim-witted ghost realised then
A corpse couldn’t give life
Rain
“This is the world of rain
And you do not belong
You journey a path of pain
But sing such a merry song?
Tell me, what do you seek?
What brings you here?
For the answers may be bleak
Speak up, I cannot hear
…Your home lies beyond this rain”
The ALPHABET!!! ARGH!!!
Aardvark with
B lymphocyte
Cytotoxin
Deerstalkers do
Fyke nets?
Goodness gracious me
Hung
I think it’s right
Jungle of
K-mesons,
Leptons aren’t they?
Mesons I think
No,
Older
Papers say different
Queer it’s
Raven
Samurai for
Tea?
Ugh boot
Viatical settlements
Well, I’ll try
Xylographic xylophone!
Y-chromosomes
Zucchetto done!
Cat in the box
A stray in a box
That is how I found you
Cold and alone
Just like me
So we became a family
You brought me such joy
Comforted me in my pain
We grow old
And now I lay you to rest
In the same box I found you in
Fortune Teller
“Come, let me tell you your fortune
Ah, I see…
You are a shooting star
Visiting worlds not your own
Trying to find your way home
Your journey is long
But you must help those in need
Help them
Follow the stories through
And you will surely find your way”
The idea of love
I never told her
How I felt
I think it was because
More than her
I was in love
With Love itself
I think
It was the same for her
Both of us
Destined to be
With each other
But forever trapped
Within a hopeless dream
Neither finding true love
Homebound
At the start of the bus lane
A woman gets off
Scarred by her hopes and dreams
She’s come back
Hoping to restart her life
Not knowing how they will feel
About her return
And as the door opens
Tears overflow
Waiting all this time
So she could return home
The daughter of snow made whole
Somewhere in the high mountains
Lived a Man and his Wife
Who were blessed with parenthood
But only during the winter
Their daughter of snow
Their source of happiness
Until summer came along
But every year
She became more and more whole
Until she was no longer
Made of snow
The Other Half
Desert eats away cities
As ash continues to fall
A lone man shelters near
Hoping to live on
This is the other half
And for fifty years he must wait
So that one day
He can speak with her again,
Laugh with her again,
And tell her how he feels
The Story of Portal Bree
Portal Bree
15 years old and with a power
She could turn into any object
Any object that wasn’t alive
So she decided to be a chair
The only problem was…
She couldn’t change back!
The stranger from another world
Cannot help
She must wait
For a ‘Tuesday’ to come
Rainbow
“This is the world of rainbow
You’re welcomed to stay
Here your dreams all come true
And never shall there be a sad day
But I see you seek your home
And if that is true you must go
Don’t even look back once
Your home lies beyond this rainbow”
Goodbye my Gardener
Without knowing it
I became a gardener
Sowing little seeds
Within everyone
Is something so beautiful
It breaks your heart
It is a flower called 'Goodbye'
Waiting to blossom
Without knowing
I watered yours
And you watered mine
Until one day
It blossomed into full bloom
A flower called “Goodbye…”
50 seconds left
By the time Bob arrived
There was only 50 seconds
Before the bomb would go off
Covered in sweat he analyses
It’s a simple trigger mechanism
He needs to cut a wire
But which one?
Green or red?
There’s no time left!
He needs to decide!!!
Three…
Two…
One…
Green…
Man on the moon
And the stranger from another world
Came upon a man on the moon
Sadness was in his smile
And though he never spoke a word
She kept him company
They watched the Earth together
As she longed for home
So he sent her along the right path
Smiling for real
Sing me a song about life
Deep in the forest of my mind
A lone star that no longer shone
Found me among my broken dreams
Enchanted with our encounter the star spoke
"Sing me a story about life"
So I sung all my pains and joys
Until morning came
And the star was long gone
Before the blinding twilight
“Are you God?
I seek my way home
But I am lost!
Your story scares me
Please, tell me the way
I fear I will not make it…
The path I must walk is still long?
There are others left to save?
…I will try
If it leads me home…”
Waking Guardian
Deep within a labyrinth
Lies an ancient ruin
There wakes a princess
From a thousand year sleep
Trusted by the Past
To save the Future yet
Now begins her task
To turn black ash to green
For the Sun shines again
Until then
Humankind must sleep
Until then
They dream
I am Man
I am Man
A god among beasts
Yet you laugh at me
You look down on me
From your treetop homes
I ask thee
Who is it
That can destroy your forest homes?
Man or Monkey?
Who can wipe out your kind without mercy?
Man or Monkey?
I pity thee…
Purpose
Hidden inside us all
Must be a purpose
A reason for and why
Yet I cannot see
Cannot hear
What fate has in store for me
Pain
Joy
Fear
Shock
Happiness
Sadness
Despair
Hysteria
I cannot join them up
My theory is flawed
For what purpose
Was I born for?
By your side
Walking an empty street
I know you’re by my side
Lost in some world that isn’t yours
Found by someone who never was
I’m sure you have a guide
A task you must fulfill
Bound by fifty promises
In a land of despair
But know this
I’m by your side
Conversations with Mum
Watching films with Mum
Is a big no-no
She will ask the following question
(Back to back)
“Is he a ghost?”
“Is he a robot?”
“Is he an alien?”
…But I suppose I don’t mind
My conversations with Mum
Are precious to me
So really…
I don’t mind…
“NO MUM!!!”
White lies
White lies
Shining as bright as any star
Star crossed lovers walk by
With a love that never was
I’ve said so many things
That I no longer know the truth
And as morning arrives
I understand the cruel irony
That my love was nothing more
Than a white lie
The dragon of the river
The stranger from another world
Happened upon a river
Within its waters rose a dragon
Fearful at first
But the dragon rested gently near her side
Long ago,
Girls were sacrificed in its name
Until one day
The dragon fell in love
Perhaps she resembled her
As it remembered her
An ill boy with headphones
The boy had an illness
That left him in pain
But all he did was smile
And pretend to be fine
And in his sadness
He met with a stranger
Who came from another world
She told him of another him
And for the first time
The boy felt alive
Doppelganger
The stranger from another world
Met a stranger from this world
As the two reflections met
Outside of a mirror
They spoke and laughed
Envied each other’s lives
But they were truly birds of a feather
Part of the same soul
But soon they parted
Each returning to their mirror
Omega gate
The boy called ‘Karz’
Lived outside the cosmos
He was told
“Never go through the gate”
But one day he did
And arrived to a river of souls
“Ah, so this is the universe?” he spoke
And he admired the sight
And there he met her
The girl called ‘Starbringer’
Fog
“Miss…
You have settled down here
But you do not belong
This is the world of fog
A land that tricks and misguides
This is not your world
It is a convenient shadow
You must journey on
If you stay you will remain lost
Your home lies beyond this fog”
What I stepped on to get here
I realise now
You’ve waited long for me
To show you love
But I never did
Never tried to
Now I know why I’m on this journey
Why my path is so difficult
And unbearably painful
What I’ve stepped on to get here
Are the pieces of your broken heart
What I wanted to tell you
Audience to a musical
Only to see you
I waited in darkness
Until you appeared
I know I wasn’t dreaming
You were dressed in moonbeams
And stardust galore
There wasn’t a spotlight
Instead you shone
Though awake, I wasn’t sure
Whether you were a brilliant snowflake
Or a divine star
I’ve found someone who looks just like you
Lost in a world that isn’t my own
I found someone just like you
Kind and gentle
And burdened with pain
I think he has waited for me
For a very long time
Fifty stories to guide me
Send me back to my home
Traveling through worlds not my own
Again
Time travelling Sue
Lived in the past
She lived in the same day
Maybe the future was hopeless
That she lived without time
But a stranger from another world
Showed her why
She remembered about today
Today, she found true love
And so her heart- the time machine
Beats again
Naivety
We were always together
Inseparable in joy
You smiled one time with sadness
I was always unsure
It was foolish of me to think
I’d always be with you
It wasn’t until one day
You disappeared from me
And because of my naivety
I never told you how I felt
Everyday life
I’d been saved
By the same man
But in different worlds
Rain
Rainbow
Fog
And the one who gave me these stories
All so I could return home
Back to my everyday life
Just so I could
Return to you
And wonder what I could do
For them
For you
Hello
Fifty years waiting
Finally the rockets land
Is he here?
Is he still alive?
She’s old and fragile
Closing her eyes for a second
She dies
But someone wakes her
She hadn’t even left his side
She smiles and finally lets out
What she kept inside for fifty years
…Hello
I can no longer find you
Perhaps that is a good thing?
I hope you made it back
You see…
I’ve spent half a century alone
And now I found you
You weren’t the right one
Fifty stories to guide you back home
Now comes to an end…
Hello… Goodbye…
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About the author
“This is actually a sequel to my first short story book- ‘Half a Century Alone.’ This book follows the theme of parallels and tells a story of someone trying to find their way home. Of the worlds she travels, there is a woman and man separated. One saved and on a rocket, while the other must die a lonely death on the dying earth. We also meet forgetful someone’s son, return to the sleeping guardian and meet parallels of the original characters from the first book.
Pick it up, it’s free as well, and like this one, it’s fifty stories told in fifty words.”
For those who are tragically obsessed, Nobo13 was born 1987 in Cambridgeshire. He spent four years doing a Physics degree but spend most of the time doodling and writing. Currently he is training to be a Science Teacher.
Nobo13’s pen name is derived from using his surname, just look above! His more unusual hobbies are collecting headphones, staring aimlessly out the window (which consumes much of his time) and messing about with musical instruments- at the moment these are ocarinas and ukuleles.
Please check out my website and my other works, thanks for reading!
More from this author
I currently have a poetry book, another short story book, and a children’s sci-fi book that are available from the following links:
Smashword profile: http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/nobo13
Tuesday: Story of the Cosmos-
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/105610
Half a Century Alone:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/117799
The Monsoon Season:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/117800
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