Paikin's Song

No Say It Not

No say it not
We were friends
You couldn't have faked it all
You're just being
An ass right now

If that is how
You wish to think
What care I
That you would deny
The truth of things
Just to make yourself
But better feel

Maybe yes
Like how you strive
To make me feel worse

Yes indeed
But it has the good
Of being true
And if it's all the same to you
It's time we fought us now

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

Well Want It I Do

Well want it I do
So no choice have you
My old friend
Tougan about to be
But beaten down

So much for friendship
Maybe I was wrong
To think it was
What I thought
But we all us learn
In the living of life

Yes you were
Quite wrong indeed
As we'd not have been
Friends in life
As normally lived

So you say
But we could have been
Bitter here too
And that we weren't
For many years

It just served me well
To fake it friendly
And believe you me
You were easily fooled

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

And He But Smiled

And he but smiled
In his reply
Did Sopadin
Cracking his knuckles
And flexing his muscles

Well it's long past time
These they learned
A different way
And weren't no more
The coddled fools
You've let them be
Or here we'll ever stay

What say that
You think we could
Yes escape us this
You are but a greater fool indeed
If that you think

Yes I do
But with your voice
The loudest heard
No not ever
Would this so be the case
So of course you'd think it so

All the more reason
Have I now
To win against you
In this a fight
I want me not at all

Charles Petrie

So You Really Want It Thus

So you really want it thus
Forget the years
That we have been
As so I thought we were
And fight because
You've thought else
For however long you have

Yes indeed
That's the gist
I'd have you know
But shut it shut it
This but needs
To be but settled
Fist to fist
Which is sure to be
Harder on you
Than it is on me

And the others they scattered
Not wanting to feel
But anything of
The looming fight
That surely was
In Soppadin's favour

Oh scatter yes you fools
I think not much
Of any of you
At all at all
And when we're done
I will be the one
To be the voice
That speaks the loudest

After speaking so
To these good others
What makes you think
They'll but listen
When you've done shown
Your contempt for them

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

The Tone Is Not

The tone is not
Nay not simple enough
For you old friend
Well how about this
Look at where we are
There is no room
For the care you would
Yes would wish you for
This nobody dead

Yes I thought that was
The gist of what
You meant to say
Though I wanted it not
To so be the case
We must now
But settle this

I suppose we must
Which is too bad for you
For we both know
I'm the better one
Of the two of us

Be that as it may
This I cannot allow
To go like so
As your uncaring way
Needs but end so now

Then make it end
If so you can
My old friend
But I surely doubt
That you so can

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

Such Words Of Yours

Such words of yours
They be to me
The slapping of my face
And you but know
I take me not
No slappings well

So now I ask of you
To sorry say
And I'll let it drop
For we are friends
And have us been
For years as since
We met us when

I'd do it if I could
For no wish have I
To fight you now
Or ever at all
But no indeed
You have a need
To sorry say yourself
And then as then
This'll be done
And we'll bury him
As so he deserves

No I'll not as do
The making sorry to you
For this is not the when
Of the properly polite
But is instead
A cold prison cold
Or had you forgotten this
Since you so ably adapt
To your wherever

Say what you mean
Dear Sopadin good
For I'm not clear
On what you mean right now

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

Take It Back

No say not so
For even the hearing such
Is a crime to my ears
For you know you well
That mad I'm not
So take it back

Well what am I to say
When if he was a spy
And why oh why
Would now they do that
He'd not fall prey
So easily so
To the creepy things

What does it matter
They why of his failure
All that matters is
That he failed he did
To spy on us
Thus we should rejoice
That died he did
Before he caused us harm

It matters yes it does
For your belief
If belief it is indeed
Is in need of proof
As so it is
Without no proof

And the others five
They quietly stood about
Not any a one
Eager to interject
Just quietly awed
That they were seeing
Such a breaking betwixt
These two friends
As so it seemed to them

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

But Who Does Wrong

But who does wrong
Like the wrong we did
Now but now
When so the many
Like us and more
Have been sent
To places like this

What if he was
Not a doer wrong like us
But merely bad
Or worse than that
A spy to see
Just how we've been
Since oh so long
We've been here

You think this poor dead
Was a spy
What kind of madness
So makes you say that

I'm not mad
And woul but think
You'd never say
Such a thing to me

Well never I thought
That I'd need to say
Such a thing to you
But clearly yes
I need to say this now

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

He's Dead He Is

He's dead he is
So what matters it
If I cut him deep
Or hang my head
In sadness for
His awful passing

It matters to me it does
So for me indeed
If not for no reason else
Still that tongue
And keep your comments
To your own damn self

Aye good Tougan
You know me you do
All you need but do is ask
And that's just what
I'll do for you

Then do it without
The tone of an ass
For though we knew him not
His dying here
Is not because
He was evil or bad
But just did wrong
To the powers that be

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

Oh The Buggar Poor

Oh The Buggar Poor
Said Sopadin
Holding his nose
And looking away
From the mess of what
Had properly been
Sahla as Alex of Earth

Aye they'd gathered together
Tougan in charge
And Sopadin his second
To follow with others
In search of Sahla

Which is where they were
When some flippantly
Sopadin spoke
Of the newest unfortunate
To there be with

Enough of that
Good Sopadin good
He deserves him not
Your cutting wit
And should be mourned
As gone he most surely is

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

And So It Came To Be

And so it came to be
That Sahla he was
Yes but changed him so
By the venom coursing through
And the biters and burrowers too
Into something someone else
Than he would have been
If he'd but felt
The doings of The Chamber
That Second To The Left
As had been the plan

Yes an awful change indeed
Such so painful
You'd not wish it on
Your own worst foe

Thus he fell him down
And soon was underneathed
A living mass
Of the horrible and the small
Such awful little things
We'd scream to see
Even safely away

So imagine how it felt
To have them crawling through
And changing what had been
Into something new

At least until
His conscious mind
Was then shutdown
And his pain so ended
Whilst still the changes
Were slowly underway

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

Thus They Crawled

Thus they crawled they did
All over him
Biting and burrowing
And causing him pain
He'd not so felt
Not ever before

And he he leapt to his feet
Screaming oh so loud
His screams they echoed
And echoed back
Again and again

But still they burrowed more
And repeatedly bit
He knew not how
He'd bear this out
At least as much
As his sickened mind
Could process then

God no no
This is such pain
How can it be so bad

Aye it was that indeed
As he fell to his knees
And screamed a yell
Most curdling of the blood

And the others there
In the dark dark place
They heard him scream
And shivered in sympathy
Thinking that
What a poor buggar he was
And that he'd soon be dead

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

Huff And Huff Indeed

Huff and huff indeed
As Sahla raced him hard
Sick in his thinking
That there many were
A chasing him

No no not
You'll not catch me
I won't let not any of you
But stop me
So easily
Though here but hell
This where I be
Is hard to return me from
I can't say quit
Or that is it

But running in the dark
Is no good thing
And weak and sick he was
He couldn't but help
And fall him hard
Upon the ground
And lie but still

Yes helpless he was indeed
For the many small things
That shared this Hell
With the most unlucky
To here so be
And this bad time
No one else
Was here to lift him up

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

And Tougan Made To Take Him

And Tougan made to take him
To where he'd better be
But Sahla in his sick
But broke away
And raced him quick away

No you fool
Don't go from me
For that surely is
The way to death

So Sahla raced away
And Tougan who would have saved him
Could only stand
His arms outstretched
For but moments
Before he could
Naught but hang his head

Oh had he not been alone
And had him the company
Of one of the others
They'd have chased them after
But he'd come alone
And wasn't sick or foolish
To try and follow him
Into Death's cold mouth

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

No Not Today

No not today
You vile things
You'll not have
Your wished for food
Of living flesh

And Tougan stamped his foot
Then lit a fire small
Which he dropped him down
To scare them off

Come with me
Oh unlucky soul
And we'll see to the bite
Before too late it is

What but who is you
Just let me rest
For I feel so sick
And but wish the pain
To go away

Don't you worry
We'll take the sick away
And then we'll see
To getting you used
To this damn hell

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

So He But Bit

So he but bit
Sahla himself
The would be hero
Stricken suddenly
As the snakelike thing
Had venom fast
To sicken such
Like the aforementioned

And dizzily he stood
Quickly losing
His right good thinking
And coming to feel
Oh so sick
And close to the dying
With pain about
The whole of his body

Oh God
What be this
The end of all
Or but a fork
Sharply poking me
On a road of misery

I wish I knew
Like when it would end
Either the pain
Or my everything
For then I could focus
On that clear time
And not just be
By this beset

But no answer came
And he only felt him worse
As he but fell him hard
Upon the ground
Both cold and dirty
And crawling more
With lots of bugs
So eager to taste
His sickened flesh

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

And Fangs They Bit

And fangs they bit
So reached upon
His soft soft flesh
And released
A painful poison
That made him scream
In sheer agony

Thus its poison so released
The snake it let him be
And slithered away
Back into
The darkness cold
Where it belonged

Alas poor Sahla
He clutched the bite
Scratching and clawing it
In some vain hope
One might suppose
To release the venom
That coursed fast
And through his body

A foolish hope of course
For that wasn't how
The snakething's bite
With it's poisonous seizing
Was but dealt with
Though truthfully
How was he to know
When even those
Who'd ever lived
On the world home
And not left as him
Knew them not
Of the snakelike things
That called the dark
Their own domain

Nay not so
'Twas only those
So sentenced to
The dark dark place
Who knew the thus
And those were those
Yes unfortunate souls
Who never not left
Once there they were

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

But Cold Alone

But cold alone
Was not his only woe
As the dark dark place
Knew of lesser life
That first had called it home
Before they came
The poor prisoners

And hissed a one of them
A snakelike thing
At poor Sahla down
As it slowly slithered near
From out the darkness cold

Away away with you
You damn like snake
I'm no threat to you
And this you know
So find to you
Your normal prey
I am certain sure
They are about

The snake it thought
Like otherwise
And slithered closer so
With a flickering tongue
Both long and forked sharp
As if to cut it could
The flesh of a larger
Like Sahla himself

Thus spooked he was
And rose him quick
Which set off the snake
Who likewise struck him fast

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

Cold So Cold

Cold so cold it is
How can anyone
But survive this here
When such cold is not
What we are meant to know

And poor Sahla sat
His teeth oh loudly chattering
As he shivered alone
And thought for a moment
Of what he'd left behind

Yes lovely Lisa
What was she doing
And who if any
Was she doing it with

And tears they came
Dripping to the floor
As a wave of sadness
Rippled through his soul
Leaving him lower than
Ever he had ever thought
That he could be

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

And He Awoke

And he awoke
In the dark dark place
Feeling dirty and dusty
Wishing oh so much
That he was where
He'd so long been

But he answered the call
As had been the plan
So many years before

Though it wasn't supposed to be
Such like this
Where he was beaten
Before he had the chance
To gain into
The Second Chamber To The Left

So what had gone wrong
He really didn't want to know
But a burning need there was
Oh flickering in his head
And he knew himself
That yes he needed
Oh needed to know as what
Had turned it so bad

Only he was not
Where he needed to be
To make that real
Which meant long it would
So gnaw at him
That the time ahead
Could only be worse
Than Thote so hoped

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

Well Enough Of You

Well enough of you I've had
You're married to your folly
And there is no other point
In speaking to you

Thus with that
He drew from his waist
His hidden weapon
And unleashed its energies
On Sahla unsuspecting such

So down in a heap he went
Most painlessly alas
For Thote's own liking
But he smiled still
At the cheery thought
That he'd have his years
To face much more
Than he seemed him able
To well cope with

Take him now
The dark dark place
Awaits him so
For however long
He will survive
I will smile at his agony

So I did well
And was worthy of your belief in me

Oh yes you did
You were perfect in your deed
And will be rewarded well
My dear Kaeina dear

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

Such False Hope

Such false hope
I can well do without
So keep it keep it
To yourself

You would spit in my face
And turn aside
The offer I gave
Who are you
To be such a fool

A fool I guess
By your reckoning
So do as you will
And I will do the same

Do as I will you say
Oh what a fool you are
When you're anything but
The kind to strongly take
What you're about to face

So it would appear
Which makes it doubly worse
For your own side
Seeing as you're so damn worried
About a harmless man like me

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

So Afraid You Are

So afraid you are
Though why I cannot see
When clearly you have it
As you so wish

So foolish is my reply
As you almost dare
A fatal response
With your impudent tongue
I should but rip from you
As a first real punishment

But as I know my place
A lesson you need but learn
if you wish to have of you
Any semblance of life
I'll not deny to him
The pleasure of that

No you wouldn't you can't
That's too cruel a thing
When look at me
Who am I to be
Any threat at all

Yes fear holds such sway
You didn't even hear
The hope I offered
To you just now

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

Yes Cry If You Wish

Yes cry if you wish
It won't hurt you more
Than your lying tongue
Or purpose bad
For coming here
So let it go
Since I see the need
In your own eyes

No I need not to cry
I only wish not to die
But that seems so likely
Which surely wasn't how
I thought it would be

Does silence mean
Like something else
On your silly Earth
That you would insist
On speaking past
My asking that you not

No it means the same
Here as there
But if I am already gone
To the place
For lies I've told
How can speaking more
So hurt me now

Are you but trying
To tell to me
How I should think
For you have to know
That is but wrong
When much the wrong
You've already done
So briefly back

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

Yet No Matter Much It Makes

Yet no matter much it makes
This your lying
For you are to be sent
To the dark dark place
We send the fools
Who stand against us

So save your breath
You'll surely need it
Where we send you
For no such place is it
To rest and take it easy

Now don't you wish
You'd stayed safe
In your distant life
You'd made since leaving
For it had to be
Much more to your liking
And not a place
To try your soul
With unending misery

Oh there was that
Upon the Earth
To be quite sure
But not for me
As lucky I was
To have made my way
In goodly comfort

Silence I said
I don't want to hear from you
Since you are but a liar
Not that the truth
Would have saved you
It just would have been
The better thing to do

And the slap that came
Stung him harsh
And lingered long
With a hint of red
That he wondered when
He'd wind up dead

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

Do You Truly Think

Do you truly think
That having discovered
The Second Chamber To The Left
We'd not have made use of it
So your lying only serves
To anger me more

I still don't know
Of what you speak
Whether you choose to believe
I cannot so lie about
Something I know of not

You expect me to believe
Such a transparent lie
Oh what a fool you are
Sahla The Soft
Yet being so
Makes your coming death
Most quite right a deed

You would kill me when
I've naught but spoken true
And you have the seeming power
You needn't worry
About a gnat like me

Naught but true you say
Yet another lie you tell
For we know damn well
Your return is not because
Of a sick for home you have
But because there was a plan
That you had a part you of

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

The Second Chamber To The Left

The Second Chamber To The Left
So sounds as like
A piece of fiction
From planet Earth
Which I so called
My home for years

Continue to lie
At your peril
Oh fool returned
And you will quickly
Discover find
That the land you left behind
Is not happy at all
That you've returned

Well since you know
Of this chamber then
Why don't you tell me
About it so
For it sounds as like
Quite the something cool

Sadly the smile
That played upon the lips
Of Alex/Sahla
Was smashed away
With the sudden strike
Of angry Thote

And done he wasn't
As he gathered him up
By his neck's own scruff
And held him there
Smiling too

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

Oh how You Lie

Oh how you lie
Sahla sent away
In the hopes of being key
To our defeat
When the time was right

Only the plan it was
Oh quickly uncovered
And we took us steps
To ensure it could not be
The end of us

Isn't that a fanciful tale
The part about me
Being some hero
Who's dreaeded return
Would spell the doom
Of evil upon the world home

It is not fanciful
For that was the plan
Which sadly for you
Was undone
Oh so many years ago

And I so look the part
Of such a hero
Shall I laugh me hard
Or simply smile

Neither I say
If you wish live long
For we know the secret
Of the Second Chamber
To the Left
And you will not get the chance
To use it at all

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

So Be It Then

So be it then
I will reveal myself
Much to your dismay
Once you see me
For you are but soft
In your weak form

And he stepped out
Thote by name
Hard and red
His dark sinister smile
Making to chill
Poor helpless Alex

I see I see
You are as you say
Making me feel
Oh so less
Though I must confess
I was not much else
Before the changing done

Ah even if you were
Something more before
You'd still but be
An easy beat for me

Well who's to say
We need us fight
I'm just returned
Because I've just come me back
As I was sick for home

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

Woe He Cries

Woe he cries
The long since gone
Who by his leaving
No matter how
Or even why he did
Loses his right
To begrudge the changes
So well made since

You call these good
When they are naught but bad
And would so sicken
The Elders of the Old
If still they were
Oh drawing breath

Now come you out
To speak to me
For no matter what you think
Of me myself
Still I have the right
To face you face to face

Best be careful fool
What wish you for
And how you speak
For oh easily
Would you fall
To anyone here
As your cries of woe
Speak of the weak
We've since left behind

Yet who's speaking from
His unseen place
Whilst thinking to lecture me
On all things past

So it seems to be
You should come you out
Or those who listen likely
Will come to think them poor
Of you so boldly hidden

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

Like Why So Red

Like why so red
He couldn't help but see
As everywhere he looked
It was shades of that

And it hurt his eyes
Almost as much
As it hurt his soul
For the beauty of
That good Purpleness
Could not be denied

Nor could he not
Ignore the buildings
That had sprung them up
In the sacred places
That never he thought
Would so be spoiled

But there they were
Dozens so ugly
It almost made him cry

Why so awful now
This was purest beauty
When last I stood me here

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

But Often Pausing Is

But often pausing is
An invite to life
To make decide for you
Like with Alex
Who but stood and held
That glittering in his hand

And before he knew
He was gone from the Earth
Too quick to scream
His angry surprise
At his sudden change of place

Yet when time was his again
To let his anger out
He felt too sick
And collapsed easily
Upon the cold hard dirt
Of home fair home

At least that is what
It once had been
But now
No now so much
Was it at all

Aye Vryth had changed
Since last he trod
Her sweet purpleness
And something else become
That made him sad
In his soul's own depths

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

Only There A Glittering

Only there a glittering
Upon the floor
Done caught his eye
And he but knelt
To pick it up

What be this
Could it be
But left behind
By chance perhaps
Or something done
With a purpose clear

Ah what to do
Beyond the holding thus
And feeling its warmth
As it lightly glows
Making me think
I maybe should
Make me use of it

Which may be the plan
Of Kaeina herself
Though that meaneth not
That that is bad
It just gives me pause
To think of which is best

So what to do
Wait for her
When that screams wrong
Or face my fear
And venture forth alone

Paikin's Song

But She Was Gone

But she was gone
Oh silently
And it was all that he could do
To not scream aloud
As he felt him so
Crushed in his sense
Of damned disappointment

Oh Kaeina
Why did you leave
As leave you did
For surely you could have stayed
To talk to me more
Rather than fade you away
Like a ghost

Thus to his knees
He fell he fell
Tearing up
And regretting his haste
In turning away
From his old life

But the done was done
And he could not pop back in
With lovely Lisa
Until she came and called to him
That they would go
And return them back
To the world home

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

Just You Go

Just you go
I but need a few
To change to ready be
And then but yes
We can talk
For I hear it in your voice
That you really have this need

Well good and fine
I am happy to hear you say this
As yes indeed
I have this need to speak to you more

So he left her easily
And paced outside her room
Anxious for her to call him in
So they could speak
As was his need to do

But as the minutes stacked
One atop the other
The pit of his stomach
Felt like bad
And he feared a lie
Was what she had told to him

Kaeina say not so
That you lied to me
For cruel a thing
That would so be
When you know
That more I needed
To speak more to you

Paikin's Song

No It Is Not

No it is not
And never was
Though a one of us
Once thought it a good
That we be together
As I recall

True enough
But I was younger then
And saw in you
Something that wasn't there

And sweeter too you were
Not a thing
I'd say of you now
But so so be it

Yes whatever you say
Will you go you now
So I might change
To go to do
What must be done

I will step outside
So you may change
For your secret purpose
But nay not far
Will shall I go
As we are yet as done
Before you leave

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

Oh What Now To Do

Oh what now to do
When the journey back alone
Is surely frought
With peril for me
When yet I have
The power I had before

Then you have your answer
Don't you don't you
For what good would it do
To so be lost
When patience would allow for you
A safe return

And before you protest
But now I want
And am so ready
I go me to gain for us
Help for the cause

Then how so long
Will this it take
And can I be of help
To speed it along

No you can't
This is mine own task
And you would only get in the way
If I even wanted you
At my side

Thus if that is so
Then what are you waiting for
When time is surely not
With us with us

I must change
And I will not do me that
With you here
For that is not our what
Now is it is it

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

That Is Not How

That is not how
I remembered it
From those years before
So forget your plans
As we must us go
And do what needs be done

I care not how it is
In your own memory
For yours is surely faulty
With all the years
You've spent you here
On this backwards world

Oh they are different
Than us for sure
But difference does not mean
Wrong so bad
Just different they are

Fine whatever
As they would say
You'll just have to wait
Or return alone
For I have things to do
That serve the greater good

That too is wrong
As I remember it
As you said we would return
Us two together
Which is only fair
As the years have passed
And I am uncertain
How best alone to go

A pity then for you
Because my task is
Of more import than yours
So wait you here
In your good silence
Or risk you losing yourself
By returning alone

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

Let Us Go Now

Let us go now
For I have done
All I needed do
To be ready to leave with you

Oh sorry that you did
As did you done
When now I am ready not
And won't so be
For days at least

No say that not to me
For I am ready as can be
And have already given up
The life I had me here

Well what can I say
But sorry you have to wait
Until I am ready myself
If you want me to take you back
For surely you do not want
To go on ahead alone

Then why did you come to me
When we both knew
That such was the sign
For me to leave
This here life

But only if I came to you
And not like how
It happened then
Where we so chanced upon
The other each

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

But Alex Leaving Then

But Alex leaving then
Gave Mark no reason
To further defend himself
Against the accusation
Of his wanting Lisa
Despite the reasons all
He wouldn't shouldn't

Though that didn't mean
That the ripples left behind
By his passing through
Weren't long to effect
The two he most
Had so touched
With his leaving thus

Like poor innocent Mark
Soured on a day
He needed the happy focus
He'd expected to have
Following such a good restful sleep

Or for his boss
Who'd long relied on him
And was totally caught off guard
By this sudden quitting
As soon to busy so it'd be


And lest we forget
His lady herself
Hurt most of all
As she'd thought them soon
Or not too after long
To be the marrying kind
Before he'd said his gone

They all of them were
Hurt by him
Not deserving of this
But he swore up and down
It was he had to do
So it wasn't them
And was him alone to blame

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

Oh What Say I

Oh what say I
Well though you married be
You clearly came to feel
Something for my lady
Which I nay not liked
So I would have come
To tell you no
She's with me

Only now I'll be gone
Maybe never to return
Thus I say to you
Do as you will

I love my wife
And have no eyes
For any other
And would think that Lisa
Would take offence
That you suggested
She wanted me

Whatever so it is
You say here now
I am leaving far away
So it matters not I say
When I don't think
I'll be back again

So you are leaving
The woman you love
And you come to me
The man you think
Is wanting her
To tell him this

Are you just daft
Or are you sick
Either way
You're a fool today

I have no other choice
My life is leading me
On another path
So I go for reason's best
Something that you should think you of
When you decide
Between your wife you love
And Lisa who you long you for

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

Well I Must Say

Well I must say
What an odd turn of day
For I had no thought
That Alex I'd see
But send send him in
And hold all my calls

He'll see you now Alex sir
So go you in
And by the by
May you find
Whatever it is
You're searching for

Many thanks for that
For success in this grave task
Is of much import

And he fixed her with a smile
Realizing quite too late
That she already had
Returned to working
Which was just as well
As it was almost time
To hurry hurry hard

So Alex I must ask
What brings you here
To speak to me
When I can see no reason
That would cause you so to come

Thou doth protest too much
You've come to seek too close
To Lisa my lady
That I was bound to come along
Or was before
I came to leave away

Oh what and what
I've come to close to her
And you leave away you do
I'm sorry but I'm lost
And would like enough
A proper explaining
Of what you mean to say

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

Then Sit You Please

Then sit you please
I'll make the call
And he'll be with you when

Of course indeed
I know I come disturbing
With no prior notice
So it's to be expected
That I would need to wait

And Janie smiled with a look
You know the kind
Where one suffers the fool
With nervousness
Afraid if else
That bad might come about

You have no need to fear
My being here
I shan't be long
And then I'll be gone
Not to return

Why say you that
Who said I feared
Or anything of the like
I simply said
Please to wait

The eyes speak volumes
Miss Janie Pottsly
But it's quite alright
I know I'm getting strange

Caught then there
She looked away
Then buzzed at Mark
That Alex was there for him

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

I Would Speak To Mark

I would speak to Mark
If he isn't too busy
For I don't quite wish
To pull him from his work
Despite the high import
Of what I must say

And she but stared at him
Not quite sure
How to respond
As Alex but looked to her
Some passing strange
The way he spoke

So yes you wish to speak
For if it is as such
Of high import indeed
He won't so mind
Being pulled from work
Because he's just that kind of man

Then yes indeed I do
Pull him away
From his good work
As yes I must speak to him
Before I go away

And you are who
Or is it such a matter
Beyond my need to know
That I should merely say
Mark please come you here
A man must see you now

There's no need of that
Tell him it is Alex
I'm sure that's name enough
To get him to come

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

Yes Indeed

Yes indeed I'll go
As I've another to see
Before I leave
For other places
Far from here

Like I said
I have work to do
So since you've said
What you had to say
Do go on about your day

And with that there done
Michael focused on his work
Hoping that was the end
Of Alex's strange good-bye

Of course I will
It's just not so easy
To turn my back
On all I've known
These last few years
So forgive me if
I longer stay
Than so I should

A sigh was his sole reply
And a rubbing of his head
In evident anger
That threatened to burst from him

Like now I have
When you're about to yell
So save your breath
I really am going now

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

That's Really Too Bad

That's really too bad
You choose to leave like this
Especially since
I was soon to offer you
That promotion
You've long deserved

Lisa said the same
But this I must do
Is more important]
Than anything else
That I have done
In many a year

So you're leaving her too
And not just me
As it were
I'd not have thought it so
As the two of you seemed to be
Destined for the ever together

I thought the same myself
But life it has for me
Some other plan
That I can't but help
And see me through

Good luck I guess
But I won't but shake your hand
As you are leaving me
Too sudden like
And this is taking much
For me to civilly be
As I am now

I understand your anger
And wouldn't even try
To deny you yours
But you must know
This is simply what
Just has to be

So be it then
You've told me you're gone
So live up to that
And please to go
I've real work to do

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

I Must Leave You Now

I must leave you now
And hate it that
It is a sudden leaving
But such it has to be

Michael paused in his work
Not used to such a speaking strange
And simply stared at Alex
As if he was but sick

I'm not in the mood
For any nonsense today
So just go back
To your own office
And get back to work
For you are one
I do rely upon

Sadly I must say
That I have to leave
And not return
For many a year
If ever at all

Michael paused again
And stood himself up
No trace of a smile
Upon his face
As he firmly set his hands
On Alex's shoulders

I don't know why
You heard me not
But this is not the time
For any such foolishness
So go you now
And I'll forget
You came and spoke you thus

I am gone alas
I merely came
To tell you I have to quit
My goodest best job
That ever I was lucky have
Hoping you won't so think
So poor of me
In the years to come

And he offered him his hand
Hoping for a shake
As ever had they worked
So well together
He hoped it could end
On a passing good

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

Oh How Right You Are

Oh how right you are
I've memory enough
Of this sudden ending
When always was our happiness
Without the keeping of
So much stuff of yours

Ah the bitter defense
That makes sad sense
For yes my sudden ending
When happiness was
That what we had

But I've tarried long enough
I'll go me now
And let you do whatever

So where exactly
Are you going to
And does this mean
You will quit your job
When you were in line
For a promotion soon

Yes it does
I need do that
For when I might return
I cannot say

And yes you are right
To shake your head at me
For this quitting I must do
Of that good job
As it was indeed
The best I had

Well at least it isn't just me
That you are forsaking
Though cold will be comfort
When memories of better days
Flood my heart and mind

Forsaking isn't the word
That I would use
But sense it makes
From where you stand
So I simply take it
And leave you with
A sorry that this is how
It ended for us

And with that he left
His words were done
And as he said
He had tarried long enough
And had to go him forth
Upon his elsewhere path

Charles Petrie

And the solid storytelling continues!

Right?

Though, who am I writing for when ain't no one following me as yet.

Sigh.

Nevertheless, I continue writing this cool poetry story.

Paikin's Song

Yet You Remain

Yet you remain
When a hurrying you must do
By your own words
So go damn you go
Before I lash me out
Further than I have
Lest you truly mean
To hurt me worse
By hanging about
When me you no longer want

And Alex but looked at her
Knowing he had said
Though he wanted to stay
He couldn't no longer
Nor could he take her with
For the danger he faced
Was his to face alone

So he shook his head
And wiped a tear away
Before leaving to pack
What little he could take

Thus ready he was to leave
In the ticking of ten
Aided of course
By the fact he'd readied some before

Oh no you aren't but leaving me
With much too much of yours
Like anything
If you really must know
For your leaving is
A hard hard blow

Then do as you will
For what I leave behind
I cannot take with me
And though I dearly wish
You wouldn't just pitch it out
I can see your reasons
For doing that

Charles Petrie

Nope, no real struggles in advancing this story since I moved it over here. And that is a good for this story has a long way to go before it is finished. Especially since I am writing it with no plan in place, I'm just writing it.

What think you?

Paikin's Song

So Be It So

So be it so
Send me on my way
With a hard good-bye
I can't really expect
No nothing else
When I've twisted your heart
So badly thus

You're quite quite right
Though I did soften
To think I'd smile
And give you a hug and kiss
When you're leaving me with
No good reason
Is utter foolishness

Oh but I am
As I have to go now
For the challenges ahead of me
Are such hard ones
That I must face them alone

Fine whatever
Speak like the mysterious hero
I guess you wish you were
Though you haven't read those books
In many a year
Just don't delay
Your leaving now
For that will only make it worse

Yes my hurrying suits us both
And having hurt you this bad
I've no wish to worsen it
With a parting long

Charles Petrie

Paikin's Song

Then Go Be Happy

Then go be happy
Wherever you intend to go
For clearly you can't be that
With my myself
And what kind of lover would I be
If I some someway
I could keep you here
When here you wanted not to stay

I know you're shocked surprised
So not angry am I that
You're not listening to me
For here I would stay indeed
If still I had the choice

That'd be funny if
It held a sliver of the truth
But who are you
And what have you done
To be so swept you up
In some such like
That would take you somewhere else

Damn I'd tell you if I could
This what of mine
As to leave with the hope
However faint unlikely
To come on back to you
Would ease my mind

But I can't I can't
And understand
Even if you dared believe
It would be so unfair
To ask you chere
So I'll simply leave you now

But not before a hug and kiss
Let us close with this
A taste of good
To see me through the bad
That's about to come

And she softened for a second
So he closed in
Only to be rebuffed
As she slapped him hard across the face

Charles Petrie

The voice called me quieter on part five here, the first part written since I brought Paikin's Song over from Yahoo 360, hopefully not a sign of a dreaded story progressing slowdown.

Time will tell though.

Paikin's Song

Oh You Must Be Ill

Oh you must be ill
Such a sudden change
From your good path
To one so daft
This really isn't no normal doings

It would make it simple
I do suppose
If sick I was
But I assure you
I am anything but sick
And am in fact
Feeling better than
I have a right to feel

Is it drugs you took
Say not no
You ever said
You'd sooner be dead
Than to take to drugs
Of that illicit kind

Nothing's changed in that regard
I've not taken any drugs
So neither sick or unduly influenced
Am I myself
Which only leaves the truth
I saw a need for change
And this is the first of my necessary steps

And Lisa but looked at him
Mouth agape
Knowing nothing more
There was for her to say
His mind was up and made

Charles Petrie

I'll be here tomorrow, will you?

Oh, Saturday. That's fine, there will just be more for you to enjoy.

Originally Attempted to post at yahoo 360/April 02, 2009

Paikin's Song

Then Go Indeed

Then go indeed
Just know this now
There's no coming back
To any us
For once you're gone
Though hurt I'll be
I'll have no other choice
Than to leave you in my past

No doubt Mark
Will cheer to this
Not that you so ever
Encouraged him
'Tis just we know us both
Even if we never spoke of it
That he wants you bad
And always has

Oh Alex
We never not spoke of it
Because never was the need
As his wanting me
Has only ever been
In your own fears

Or would you say
He but married his wife
Much beloved I might
To keep from being alone
Because he could not have me
His most ardent want

Yes indeed I would
He only chose her
After we were together
For far too long
For him to steal you away

That really is absurd
They only met then
So how could they be
Before it was you and me
As for the length
You so described

Unless he met her before
And left it to be
The case of things
When so it wasn't
The case at all

Charles Petrie

Come back tomorrow for part IV of Paikin's Song wherein...well, that would be telling now wouldn't it?

It would also require me knowing just what was next, because I won't know until I sit in front of the screen and type part IV tomorrow, because there isn't a roadmap for this story, it's completely on the fly.

Originally posted at yahoo 360/April 01, 2009

Paikin's Song

Yet What Good

Yet what good
Was alone to you
Alex my dear
When before the us
You were lesser much
And can only be
The same again

While yes I was
As so you say
Those years before
And couldn't have had
The good I did
Since we met became
I'm not the same man now

Oh Alex fool
How say you this
When I but go away myself
On my weekends rare
You slip fallback
To your slack sad past
And but hastily clean before
I so return

No doubt Mark
Is the teller of this
Still jealous some
That I won the award
That we both sought

You think I need him
To say what's clear to see
Such a foolish thing to say
When you must have known
I knew how you spent those whens
And only kept my silence
Because I thought it mostly harmless
Since I'm about enough
To keep you from your weakest ways

Well needn't I a mother
Though not about that is this
I just must elsewhere go
And must call an end
To what I never thought
Would see its ending
Before my death

Lucky me I guess
That not we married
Or had us children
For more a louse you would so be

You anger notwithstanding
That same old wish
It is indeed the luck
That naught we did
For then I'd feel bad
About this must I do

Charles Petrie

Yes, I have too many poetry stories on the go, most not more than too few, having only completed one at Tuesday 42(Of 36), less than halfway through finishing the second and already having begun another on my palm, this is a poetry story that I could "do without" as it adds to the "burden".

Then again, Badam!!! It's off to a great start and I had me the thought that maybe just maybe, I'd come here to visit more than four times a month to progress the story along faster, no doubt something that would serve me well.

Hmm, something to consider for sure, as melodramatic doesn't need to become my most blog counted posting site this year or any year, though it is still some likely to do that this year.

Originally posted at yahoo 360/March 28, 2009

Paikin's Song

Naked's Last

But why must it be
This sad way
When we are so close
And happily enjoy together

Aye that was truth enough
These past few years
But changes are afoot
And they call for me
To do this done

So you mustn't love me now
And likely never have
Or else you'd take me with
Wherever you intend to go

Au contraire
You are my chere
And I love you yes
And ever will
Which is so why
I must leave you behind

Oh such bull you speak
You think me stupid weak
You've but distant been
Since that lady strange
Did bawl you out
Late Sunday past

It's isn't what you think
There is no she and I
But yes she is the one
Who made me aware
Of why I must leave
And never not again
Lie with you

Yet some bleak how
She'll say to lie with her
And having need of that
You'll happily oblige her so

In truth she said
That never no more at all
As naked thus
Must be my past

Then go be away
You wrecked my day
Not so much for leaving now
Though that is harsh
More so because
You left like a louse
And lied to me
About the why of it

I knew it'd be hard
And anger would you have
But this is for the best of you
And I love you enough
To bear this pain
On my shoulders alone

Charles Petrie

Yes, this is yet another story poem, but one I will not slip into Tuesday 42, for there are already 35 poetry stories on the go there and that is far too many. But damn, this is a start deserving of Tuesday 42 attention.

Curse my lack of poetry story discipline in the first twelve issues.

Oh well, there are always other poetry vehicles I can build.

Next when.

Originally posted at yahoo 360/March 19, 2009