Mortality
This piece is a remix of a poem that my friend wrote. I was showing him an example of how people can edit and create poems from existing poems and the possibilities of the different style to collaborate. I maintained rhyming as in the poem to relate it back to the original as much as I could. It definitely turned out to have a very different outcome and emotion to it as we both have different takes of when we read the original piece. The original piece was written by Nicholas. At day break Right where the sun beams wake By the lake where palms cup the first breaths of my vitality This is the beginning of legacy. The skies change its tone as swallows sweep as kites soar Dancing with winds blown as rain pours as I weep over the things I have outgrown. As my youth slipped through the cracks Like an hourglass tipping over The grains of sand lose track within its own gradients covered in the multitudes of a thousand folds Quicker as the angle grows steeper. Falling with gravity is inevita