The Two Faced Man

[Scarlett Moon]

Hey
Well...haven't written in awhile. I've had writer's block and this is the best I could come up with. I think it's obvious who this is about...maybe not really. It's about a fictional charactar. I thought I'd use that for some inspiration...

Once upon a time
In a galaxy far, far away
Isn’t that how most stories begin?
Not mine
Oh, no, no, no
Not mine
For mine is the story of the Two Faced Man
The story starts every morning
With a single flip of a coin
After all, life is a gamble
So shouldn’t everything be left up to chance?

Every day I wake up
Five minutes before seven
I reach out to the left
Grabbing my frozen coin
It lies in the palm of my hand
A face peers lifelessly up at me

My fingers suffocate it
Slowly it warms up while I’m lost in thought
What I will become of me today,
Will I play the part of the hero?
Or will I play the part of the villain?


Finally it’s time
As the clock hits seven
With the single flip of a coin
All will be decided
Almost like the start of a football game
But this time—but this time it’s my life
Not some silly game decision
I sit there watching the coin
It’s like the Olympic gymnast defying gravity
The coin flips and flips and flips
Slicing through the air
Going above my head
Then gravity reigns again
It plummets toward my hand
But I watch it like it’s in slow motion
My heart speeds up
What will it be?
What will it be?!


Again
The coin hits my hand
It’s as cold as it was before
When I first grab it that morning
My eyes are closed tight
I think I felt my eyelashes intertwined
What will it be?
What will it be?!
Was it stupid to always leave my life to chance?
Gradually, they open to see
The burnt side of a two faced coin
I look up into a mirror knowing my fate at last
Today,
Today, I was going to play the part of the villain.

The coin laid in the palm of my hand
My fingers suffocated it while I sat there
This was the story of the Two Faced Man
This is how it always started
This is how it will always start
With the flip of the coin
Because life was a gamble

[qimissung]

Quite a tale you told in just a few short lines. Loved the twist toward the end. Sometimes life, and people, seem a little like that anyway, don't they?

[aBIGsheep]

Might as well just call it Two Face rather than Two Faced Man

[Delta40]

I like the ending. It is suspenseful. I note the last line is in the past tense. Is that your intention?

[Delta40]

I just read that stanza again. Maybe it is appropriate.

[Scarlett Moon]

Hi
Thanks for all the comments. I love to read them. And I don't know, I had a big debate whether to call it Two Face or The Two Faced Man. I still don't really know, it's a working title in progress, I guess. And thanks Delta40 for pointing out the little blemish. I think that's supposed to be in presant tense but hey, sometimes accidents happen and they're the best. Like ablibing.

[qimissung]

Two Faced Man sounds better to my ear than just Two Face. It makes me think of Janus who had two faces. His two-faced visage used to adorn doors in Italy, a symbol of beginnings and endings.

[cogs]

are you going to write more drafts of this? this part is interesting:
'Every day I wake up
Five minutes before seven
I reach out to the left
Grabbing my frozen coin
It lies in the palm of my hand
A face peers lifelessly up at me

My fingers suffocate it
Slowly it warms up while I’m lost in thought'

the part of villian or hero is enigmatic, and i'd like to see that developed :)

[eyemaker]

Nice!:D I love the latter parts.

[duskmuse]

Hey
I loved the flow of this poem, it just left the page nicely. Although I can't believe you wrote about Two Face. He deserves a poem though, I liked how you sort of created this inner conflict. It makes me wonder what it's like for him when he really does wake up in the morning. I agree with cogs. If you develop it a little more, I think it'd be more interesting. (Not that it isn't already.)
Thanks for sharing and good luck with writing
-Dusk Muse