By Emi Gruender and Mia Hanuska
Would you rather have to speak in rhyme for the rest of your life or have to speak in riddles for the rest of your life?
Emi: A paradox in itself, puzzles incarnate. With every word, I bend your mind. What am I?
The more you read, the less you understand. The pen that hid the heart ‘neath the floorboards, the pen that diverged the paths in the wood, now writes the words you speak aloud. Words that dance upon the air now grace your tongue. When given the choice to take the path less taken, let questions pervade the air with words of your own.
My opposing author, who is Missing In Action, prefers to chase rainbows for a pot of gold with her matching words. Without sophistication yet with rhythm so refined, the practice moves people to false tears, without participation from the wrinkled walnut above their heart.
Like a lawyer at the end of their case, I confidently speak the words that every opponent trembles to hear…
Mia: When given the choice between riddle and rhyme, with the former I would not waste my time.
An epic rhyme simply oozes charm, while the fiddles with riddles cause me mental harm. Trying to train my brain for the latter would simply be in vain, and besides, they must drive peers insane. I’d prefer to write with my words flowing just quite right, breezing in flight like a colorful kite.
She tries to be this goody-two-shoes, using riddles to amuse, but instead her words only confuse—the cues an excuse to hide her ruse. I do believe, braiding my words in a weave would allow me to relieve any who misconceive as it’s naïve to perceive that rhymes would ever deceive. Matching the ending of a word with one typically unheard compares to the soft cawing of a lovebird, in nature not a sound that will engird one yet often beautifully preferred. Communicating in rhyme is obviously sublime, while the words of a riddling mime are clearly filled with grime and should be a crime. Alas, we should not delay, the time for rhymes is today, and I will not decay in the ashtray of a cliché word-maze.