Challenge 5

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**Theme: Carnival**

## 1st Position: Chiron66 (Caleb) with 4 upvotes

My spirit's dull

Nothing like a carnival

But when I'm with you

That carousel

Starts to spin

Spirit's now alive

Your eyes

They're filled with spinning lights

You bring me to life

Tonight though

I cry

My spirit almost dies

Goodbye

Tonight's the night I'm gone from mind

The night the carnival dies

The carousel screeches to a stop

Yet I'm still atop

The hillside of life

Cause through this

I still have to live

Too stubborn to die

No more spinning lights

But sunset from the hillside

That's enough light

To reflect from my moist eyes

Sun's going down

Goodnight

Goodbye

Don't cry

You still have wings to fly

So fly

Fly for me, tonight

And for the final time

I say goodnight

## 2nd Position: HighlyRandomized & Emperors Potato, Lord of Dawi and Spuds both with 2 upvotes

Carnival. What a strangely happy word for a broken place as this, she thought, nudging a metal bar away with her foot. It really was hard to believe that this place once was a playground, where children laughed and had fun. The whole landscape was an ashy grey, littered with rusty pieces of metal. A circular wheel with suspended seats loomed in the corner, tilting forward at an unnatural angle. Broken down shops surrounded the outer edges of a street leading up to the wheel, their faded signs hanging lopsided. Walking past, the girl ducked her head into one not-as-broken stall and saw decomposing, filthy Common Era toys- a brown teddy bear whose dark beady eyes were the only thing intact of its face. The eyes were unnerving, like the toy had suffered through unspeakable acts. She shoved her hand inside and took hold of the toy, pulling it free from the wreckage and walked back to her hovership and placed the toy on her control panel. As she initiated the lifting manoeuvres, her fingers dancing across the array of buttons and levers, she stared at it, pondering the fact that, in another life, the stuffed toy would probably have been in the hands of a small, cute little child who would’ve been bursting with innocent joy at the sight of the bear in its former glory.

### Emperors Potato, Lord of Dawi and Spuds

If you're livin' in a bubble and you haven't got a care

Well, you're gonna be in trouble 'cause we're gonna steal your air

'Cause what you got is what we need and all we do is dirty deeds

We're the Spaceballs! Watch out, 'cause we're the Spaceballs

We're the masters of space

Hey, don't mess around with the Spaceballs.Uh!

Going cruisin' in a spaceship, we're so good at being bad

We'll destroy your little planet if you ever get us mad

We're mothers of the galaxy

You better scatter when you see

The Spaceballs! Watch out, we're the Spaceballs

We're the masters of spaceSay what?

Don't mess around with the Spaceballs.Watch out!

We're mothers of the galaxy

We're gonna take the air you breathe

Hahahahahaha!

Oh! Spaceballs!

Watch out!

We're the Spaceballs

We're the masters of space

Do-do-do-do-don't mess around with the Spaceballs.

Yo! Watch out!

We're the Spaceballs!

We're the masters of space

Hey, don't mess around with the Spaceballs.Watch out!

We've got a bossin' little ship

So you better watch your lip

'Cause we're the Spaceballs.

Watch out!

You may think that you are bad

But believe you can be had

By the Spaceballs!

Watch out!

We're the Spaceballs!

Watch out!

We're the Spaceballs!

We're the masters of space

Don't mess around with the Spaceballs.

We're so bad and mean

We make nightmares out of dreams

We're the Spaceballs!

We're the Spaceballs.

You better watch out!

Hehehehahahahaha!

At a carnival