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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 1st Feb 2025
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