Before You Go to Sleep/Information

Dear Wikians, WFWians, Warriors Fanians, and Forest Fanians alike:

This is it. The poem I've been trying to write. I needed inspiration, I got it, and so I got an opportunity to write the poem and I've very, very proud of it.

I think the most obvious aspect of the poem is the "goodbye, Arti!" part, sooo I'll save that for last. :3

Lately in English we've been talking about a theme of writing called Romanticism, which is basically a form of writing that emphasizes the soothing power of nature. It's got some pretty great stuff, actually, like Nathaniel Hawthorne and other Romanticists like him.

While studying Romanticism, I got the opportunity to read what is now my FAVORITE poem in the history of poems, and get this: it was written by a seventeen-year-old. I'm seventeen, guys, this is amazing!

What's my favorite poem, you ask? Thanatopsis, by William Cullen Bryant. It's basically an entire poem constructed of imagery, using nature to console the reader about his inevitable death (which Bryant hopes will come in his sleep, of course). It's honestly a beautiful poem. I think you guys should read it.

Thanatopsis was written in iambic pentameter, as well. Which just makes it cooler.

Taking the death condolences and the iambic pentameter thing, I tried to create a poem that would be just as striking, but for my good friend Arti. In the story I created in the poem, there is a short story behind it, where she is seriously injured in battle and ends up on her last life, and is slowly dying. (¿Qué lastima, no?) In the poem, Arti's sleep is a comparison to death, and her death is a comparison to her leaving the wiki.

Arti, I know that you didn't want me to write anything, but if I didn't post it now I was afraid that you wouldn't ever get to see it. <3 And besides, remember Forever? Yeah, that was awesome. This is my repayment. :)

tl;dr: Read Thanatopsis, and we'll miss you lots, Artskimo!

~Forest