At The Corner Of My Eye

A Lacklinguist Frame

Tap. Tap.
Tap tap tap.
The world around me blurs into indecipherable nonsense
As the sound envelops me in a cocoon of dizzy stillness.

I am but a mere mortal.
My limbs attempt to find some sort of fulfillment in hiding in a game.
Or am I hiding really ?
Witness me, as I abandon my poor frame.
Witness me, get drunk on wonder.
This broken frame is gone.
Now I am a bundle of blinking lights.
But now can I forge my stories,
Inscribed, like archaic alien messages.
On the backs of disks.

I have journeyed across a dying land,
To burn my soul and let the Lords cling to light.
I have fought the covenant hordes as the last of my kind,
And found my life was given to a halo of destruction.
I have see the billion planets ravaged by the reaper's kiss.
And chosen to end the reign with a flick of a switch.
I have faced the humans who like to play God,
Led a revolution in humanity, instead of violence, in thought.

So would you kindly tell me a story,
Of how your poor skin and bones grant you any less glory.
So what if I haven't left my chair, neither have you,
But your minds have made their way.
To another day, time, world or universe.

So would you kindly tell me why,
You are content with being the king in just one story.
When this blank paper mind, has a million pixels write,
Upon it, the tales of a hundred lives.

So would I kindly tell you.
I don't hide from the many, I join the ranks of the few.
Who have one life in their flesh and blood frames,
But have chosen, to live many.

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Thank you for reading !!
Washi is Japanese handmade paper. Used for calligraphy or origami.
This is a case made for videogames.
Those mentioned, in order, are
Dark Souls
Halo
Mass Effect
Deus Ex
BioShock. ("Would you kindly").
Not at all exhaustive. Just the stories that have made a mark.