The Other Us



The other us is
The snakes, which are
The worms that live in
Our intestines.

The snakes, the other us, need
The bacteria, which are
The environmental helpers, to live in
Our intestines.

The snakes, the other us, need
The bugs that are their evil messengers.
The ones they fear the most while living in
Our intestines.

The snakes call us
The temple, shells, and machines. We are
The snakes' mobile vehicles while they live in
Our intestines.

The bugs knock at the doors of
The temple, us, by injecting poisons,
The instructors of the evil snakes living in
Our Intestines.

The bugs enter the shells through
The nose, ears, eyes, and other body entrances
The evil messengers of the snakes in
Our intestines.

The bugs never bring good news and
The snakes deliver chemicals that cause
The heart to skip a bit, their evil job in
Our intestines.

The snakes cause us depression,
The snakes cause us anxiety.
The snakes cause us fear while living in
Our intestines.

The snakes usurp our identity
The snakes makes themselves
The other us and rule our emotion from
Our intestines.

The snakes, if successful in
The mission of destroying the host gets
The heavenly reward when they leave
Our intestines.

The offspring of the snakes, is assured
The craving place of heaven and
The eternal life for job well-done from
Our intestines.

The other us doesn't care about us.
The Eternal life for them is
The most important. We are killed from
Our intestines.

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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme abcD EbcD ExcD fbcD xdcD xxcD gxcD xhcD hxiD cxxD xgiD faiD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,391
Words 252
Stanzas 12
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

Kidnapped

I am a person that was born into a deceiving world. After I was born, my mother, which was a pod of snakes and controlled by the animals in the environment in which she lived, took me to worshipers of the cats, the cat.holic, to be baptized. But later on, at twelve, the snakes came to my house to tell me that if I don't follow their god, I would go to hell. Seing myself in literally a hot fire, I let myself be converted to the snakes religion thinking that I was escaping something called hell. I didn't know that all gods were as thieves as their servants. I guess that my mom was deceived as well and didn't have a clue that the snakes, worms, living in her, were controlling her. All my life, I lived in a deceitful world created by the rich, because only the rich know about the nightmarish world they created for their gods. I never knew why religions existed and permeated all our existence. I never knew why I was brought up in a world of fear. I never knew why I suffered abuse from my parents, governments, churches, friends, and families, and the animals. I never knew why this world was made for the "dead" and why people worshiped the dead and all animals. I never knew why people's names are their gods' names. I never knew why snakes, dogs, birds, cats, elephants, fish, octopuses, and other animals are made gods. I never knew why religious people forced or deceived people into serving their gods. I understand now why a beggar says "god bless you" when someone gives them some pennies, since his gods made him a beggar and other people wealthy. I was born in an unwelcomed world ruled by cruel beasts who gave themselves titles of kings, queens, presidents, shahs, ceasars, counts, priests, pastors, and such beastly titles that described how cruel they are. Everyone is full of vermins that usurp their identities. Everyone is full of viruses that make one a conflicting entity. The rich hide where we came from. The rich hide the reason why they are the rulers of all mankind. The most horrible fact is that no matter how educated a man or a woman seems to be, or how wealthy or poor he or she can be, he or she is just a slave of snakes, dogs, cats, birds, maggots, and other bacterial animals. We don't look like a snake, but the world is ruled by snakes. We don't look like a lion, but the world is ruled by lions. We are the lowest of all species, isolated, enslaved, killed, eaten, abused even by the littlest bugs. Yet, a vermin born out of feces is worship by our species. Why? The rich know and the poor know, yet many of us are left in the dark to be exploited. One blatant fact: If it was supposed to be this way, Earth wouldn't be made with layers of deceits. more…

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