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"Coraline"
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Alana Cheng "Coraline"
Written by Alana Cheng
Coraline
Which is the name to me
Of a strong and brave character
Who helps to show
The kind of reality of a scenario
In relation to my own life
Of the reflection
To be lost in a game
In a big web of lies
Of every twist and turn
Of all the innocence
That has come to burn
In the story
Of this tragically turbulent life
Entangled in the scenario
Of deceit and manipulation
To be swallowed up
In the time of corruption
Of my own life
To be in relation to Coraline
Of my story
That is just like hers
With the moments of trouble
Everywhere it stirs
Upon the lurking of my life
Just as to be like Coraline
In all the misadventures
Of a life that's gone astray
All on its own
From a life
That I had once known
Has now become a scenario
Just like for Coraline
Of everything
With a completely different tone
Of all the wild oats
That have long been sewn
For only of all that I can do
Just as Coraline
Would see from her perspective
Are all becoming undone
Right before my eyes
To see through all the darkness
Of all the trauma
With a million lies of everything
That I had ever thought
To be everlastingly true
Until I was able too see
The nightmare of a life
That I was truly living all along
Of a world that's come apart
As well as for Coraline
Of everything in this life
That has gone from right to wrong
As to what I can find
Of the light that shines
As well as for me and for Coraline
At the end of the tunnel
Even though
It's still a long way to go
Just like for Coraline
With everything of this strife
In my own life in tow
With only the strength that's left
From inside of me
As well as for Coraline too
In having to continue to fight
For the freedom that's mine
As it has been mine
All along through the years
Of feeling defeat
In having to face the reality
Of possibly having to be forced
To look through the lens
Of the button eyes
That would be forced upon me
To see things in the way
Of how the manipulator
Of the absolute deceiver
Would seem to see things
In the narcissistic point of view
Despite my strength to fight back
All through my endless tears
For as long as I will trudge through
The whole entire storm
Of escaping the darkness
That tries to consume me
Of trying to eat up my own life
As to leaving me to be
So tragically broken forever
In my own vulnerability
To be wasted away
In the wasteland of everything
That I refuse to become
Of all that I will refuse to break for
By the dark essence of hell
That does what it can
To pound endlessly on my door
Just as well as to how
Coraline would seem to do
When she closed the door
Of the world
That she once thought was good
For it was all just a trap
Of having to be made
By the deceiver of manipulation
To have her lost and kept away
In a world where it was only fake
For how there was the sake
Of having to be made
To sell her soul to the manipulator
To have claimed to be
Nothing but only the creator
Who claims to be
Of much understanding
To the needs of what is good
For somebody as the child
To puppeteer around
For only the control would seem
To be in the manipulator's hands
For just as for Coraline
As well as for myself in this life
Of all the chaotic strife
To see from this perspective
Of the truth as to where it stands
In the fake world that is really hell
In having to look up
To see how far of when I first fell
All the way down
To hit the entrapment
Of an entangled web of lies
Of a million ways of subtle deceit
Which has only cost for me
As well as for Coraline
To face the same familiar scenario
Until the war has been won
Between the good and the evil
That would seem to clash
In the storyline of seeing things
For how they really are
Of the realization
For both me and Coraline
In the longing to really be fine
As there is still the fight to be won
No matter how close or how far
Of a life that can only seem
To be so bad
As yet it can be so sad
With one simple twist
To make it all seem so sad
In the dangers of being lost
In a web to be stuck in
With no place else to run to
For the shelter to truly be kept
In the safe haven
Of the light of real protection
If only in this real life
That is my own
I can only say for the similarities
Of the story of Coraline
In being brave enough alongside
The sense of feeling scared
To still be able to fight the evil
That has only yet to be won
On this end for me
To have the longing to be set free
So far away from my misery
In the strength to keep going
Just like for Coraline
To be knowing that everything
Will absolutely come to be just fine
