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Dancing In Your Graveyard............. (Choose Your Own Adventure)

#1  
Stranded in a remote countryside  
In the distance you see a village  
Seeking any help they can provide  
You walk the extra mileage  
Empty streets echoed terrified screams    
As you knock on a door unanswered    
The storm raining nightmaric dreams  
Calmness and uneasiness now transferred  
(Attempt to go inside ---> #2  
follow the voices down the street ---> #3)  
   
#2  
You slowly push open the squeaking door  
And see an empty cobwebbed abyss  
As you walk upon the creaking floor  
Now exploring this haunting premise  
As you've walked halfway across the room  
You hear the sound of a thunderous rumble  
The chaotic sound of your impending doom    
Into the ground the floor starts to crumble  
(Attempt to go back outside --->#3  
Run up steps to escape collapsing floor --->#4)  
   
#3    
The streets are paved with fear and dread  
As screams fill the chilled midnight air  
Following footsteps of the previously dead  
You approach a ritual of the unaware  
Enticing smokiness invites the cemetery    
As spectres rise from their tombstones  
A dancing ritual from the imaginary  
Of skeletons dancing with their bones  
(Cross a nearby bridge to escape --->#7  
Dance with the skeletons --->#8)  
   
#4  
The steps lead into a musty bedroom  
And for now the floor stopped collapsing    
Positioned next to the window of gloom  
A lonely chair waiting, meant for relaxing    
Tired and exhausted, now trapped inside  
You stop to try and catch your breath  
But spirits reside that have previously died  
And you sense them coming for your death  
(Sit in the chair to relax a moment --->#5  
Exit the window to escape --->#6  
   
#5  
As you sit in the chair for a quick relax  
Shackles appear out of the midst of nowhere  
Trapped in this permanent prison of relapse  
Out the window you're forced to stare  
In the distance a vision meant to enhance  
Reflections of your memories scarred  
Sacred rituals and a burning fire dance  
Of skeletons dancing in your graveyard  
   
#6  
Now attempting to climb to the ground  
You break the glass, the window shatters  
As you slip you start free falling down  
Onto the ground your dead body splatters    
You hear the sounds in the distance  
And see skeletons standing as guards  
You succomb to your spiritual existence    
And start dancing in your graveyard  
   
#7  
You cross the bridge to escape the town  
And the chaos and madness that ensued  
Still stranded you slowly turn around  
And realize what you have viewed  
Through a window a prisoner stuck  
By the shackles he himself created  
A dead body laying, down on his luck    
A victim of the problems he evaded  
Another man dancing amongst the fire    
Dealing with the heat from his mistakes  
And there you are, still uninspired    
Living in a lost dimension of twisted fate  
   
   
#8  
Joining in the ritual you start to dance  
And come face to face with a face well known  
Familiarity from this hypnotic glance  
A lifetime of your lifes regrets now shown    
Pain exposed strolling down memory lane  
You beg for eternal forgiveness    
The mistakes in life are yours to blame    
Or owning them to cure your sickness  
You were the reason you were stranded  
Isolated in this world and left all alone  
But by facing the sins you abandoned    
New hope breathed into your futures unknown
Written by Mstrmnd1923
Published | Edited 29th Dec 2024
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