Writing The Red Sea at the End

[2010DigitalBoy]

[COLOR="DarkRed"]Don't know what these are called, but anyway.
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[B]~The Red Sea at the End~[/B][/CENTER]

I remember what happened. The conscious decision to become unconscious. It's because I was fed up. No, that's not not accurate. I had just lost my ability to endure. I was looking for an easy way out, I guess. I couldn't deal with anything anymore, so I ran away.

But where did I go? The first thing that came into view was a bright red sea. It stretched on forever into the distance, and the ripples of tiny waves continually splashed on the shore where I sat. It was no beach - only cold pavement that was cracked and jagged like the result of some massive earthquake. I was standing on a jutted piece of ground that stabbed several feet into the air. I was naked, staring off into the distance of this eternal sea. I thought that this must have been the blood of everyone who'd ever died glistening in the evening sun.

Ding! A chime resonated from behind. I turned my head carefully into the direction of the land. What I came upon was a city in ruins. Buildings were crushed and toppled over. Roads were broken and raised to match the buildings, and everything was a giant mess of concrete and twisted steel. It was like a pair of giant hands had squeezed the city onto a ball and the blood of all it's inhabitants dripped from it like juice into the sea. It mixed with the water and become bright red and diluted. Was I standing on the banks at the end of the world?

I looked up at the sun. Supposing that all of mankind had gone extinct, the sun still burned. It meant that life continued to go on in the eyes of the universe that is so much bigger than one planet. The cosmos would not remember our kind. So I was all alone in this world.

The fault was my own, though. After all, I'd run away from the life of a human. Naturally if I wasn't human, I must not have seen the same fate that they did. I was left alone where I chose to be, standing on the brink of existence. On all sides, I stood before a dead world. Which way did I go? Try to walk through the city where nothing exists any longer? Or cast myself into the sea and drown in the reality of my mortality? All that remained for me was regret. The only ability left of me was to regret my decision to become alone. [/COLOR]

[Aberinkula]

[COLOR="77656"]I don't know if this is a poem, a stor-idea or what. But it's beautiful. I can sense the emotion throughout. Ironically I'm listening to [B]I Wont' see You Tonight Part 1 by A7X[/B]; this kind of reminds me of the song. Personally, I'd rather die than be alone, the pain of no one around would erode my soul and my mind to the point of madness.

This also reminds me of Final Fantasy X where it has Tidas sitting aroudn the campfire with everyone, the feeliing of ruin and desolation during that scene is reminenscent of this work.

Great job DB, one of your best pieces of work. The sheer emotion I sensed was pheenominal.[/COLOR]

[2010DigitalBoy]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]It's a stand-alone piece. It's because I have a habit of writing openings to things that can't really be built off of, or that are just random pieces. I wrote this as a prologue to something, but it doesn't need to be. It's fine on it's own, because it had all the emotions I wanted conveyed at the time.

I enjoy it because the emotion is there, but the concept is open for interpretation. [/COLOR]