Submissions by Amplify

Once upon a time is not an appropriate fashion to start this story.
A tale of a sleepy little village, stripped of its former glory.
Take a peek at the graveryard's gates and try to debate,
whether you should be wandering around this late.

Next to the church there appears to be a suspicious little house.
In a drunken stupor the mayor glances at you before his spouse,
pulls him away from the graveyard and towards the marketplace.
You solemnly wonder whether there's something funny upon your face.

Closing in onto the ebony wooden door, you start to...

I bid you farewell, dreary days inside the classroom.
Filled with intellectual babble, things we might or might not understand.
Things we have been educated, been thaught to comprehend.
I will miss you nevertheless.
Farewell.

I bid you farewell, scribbled and folded sheets of paper.
Written upon from the first to the last line.
Assuring me that my exams would go just fine.
Eagerly I will work with my pens again.
Farewell.

I bid you farewell, my friends and acquintances.
A fairweather friend you mustn't become.
For friends of such...