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Red Hood

May 17, 2019
By Anonymous

A girl called by the name of her hair

Not her original

Giving her a title she despises

No one knows about her life back at home

All they know is she prefers to be alone


And yet, she be out there looking for a friend

The ones in the shadows that are left for dead

Or maybe she’s the one being left at the end

But it’s cool cause she’s got herself to keep her sane


Instead of returning to the house of horrors

She traps herself inside an abandoned burrow

She wants to let people in but no one is interested

She wants, no, she needs someone to set her free


So she counts down the days up on the wall

Marking everytime the sun chose to fall

Asleep she tries to catch some Z’s

But she can’t help to feel the gaze of venomous eyes


A man approaching her

He looks mysterious

But he seems like a nice guy

Someone who said he adored


For someone so lonely

She couldn’t say no

So the man walked in

And asked to be buddies


She smiled wide and so did he

Yet his smile was wack

A little pointy and sinister

His eyes beginning to beam


In an instance, she realized what she had agreed

To trying to run, but becoming his snack

 


Now when she shows her face

The crowd seems to be fazed

But she don’t care

She puts out the sign beware


The scars that come across

Have made her lost

From this day on

She wears that red hood top


With logos to show

Not where to go

And not to mess with her flow

Or else the wolf will come blow


The author's comments:

This piece was inspired as I was listening to music. My lyric poem was based off of hearing other people’s raps and knowing how they all debuted by telling their stories. I wished to be like my idols, and because I want to be a music producer when I’m older and start out with something, for I don’t have a lot of the resources needed to create the actual beat, I listened to while writing this. A lot of the end rhymes was mostly for a guide for when I didn’t know how to word a phrase in my head. A lot of this is really a reference to me being little red riding hood. This was supposed to be like the "demented" story of little red riding hood since everyone only knows about her trip to Grandma’s house, but not anything else. This is more of like a alternative story to what happened to her. The wolf is supposed to represent the anger she uses against the people who’ve always avoided her and went against her calling her names and stuff like that. The wolf is actually what comforts her and makes her protected from the negativity of others. The scar is to show how she’s changed and the change has stayed inside unless needed out. The hood with logos is supposed to show how she no longer wants to get messed with and doesn’t care if people want to be her friend because she herself. She's safe inside her own world and doesn't need anyone else


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