The Memories, The Madness //

[Cloudmuffin - -]

You've gotta swim
Swim for your life
Swim for the music
That saves you
When you're not so sure you'll survive

Memory of Madness

You gotta swim
And swim when it hurts
The whole world is watching
You haven't come this far
To fall off the earth

Memory

The currents will pull you
Away from your love
Just keep your head above

Not a second over two

I found a tidal wave
Begging to tear down the dawn
Memories like bullets
They fired at me from a gun
A crack in the armor

Grazer

I swim to brighter days
Despite the absence of sun
Choking on salt water
I'm not giving in
I swim

Ranch-type Nokota Horse

Yeah you've gotta swim
Through wars without cause
Swim for the lost politicians
Who don't see their greed as a flaw

Blue Roan with flecks of black

The currents will pull us
Away from our love
Just keep your head above

One brown, one blue.

You gotta swim
Swim in the dark
There's no shame in drifting
Feel the tide shifting and wait for the spark

Mare

Yeah you've gotta swim
Don't let yourself sink
Just find the horizon
I promise you it's not as far as you think

I'm nuetral, and i've been told it shows. I'm not all happy go lucky. I know what this world is like. However, I don't cause problems for others when I don't need to. My frame may be tall and powerful, but I don't use it to bully others into my will. I tend to be a gentle creature. However, I do have a stubborn headstrong side. With a little push (and maybe some practice) I really could be a dangerous foe to my enemies. I'm intelligent, but people say I lack common sense. I'm known to be a bit ditsy sometimes. I'm the kind of mare who, if the thought struck me, might get up in the middle of the night and run just to run, or fight just to fight. When I crave something, I go for it. I'm easy to be around, versatile, sweet, and sometimes a little too caring. It could take only a second to love someone, even if they really don't deserve it. One act of kindness, and I believe there is hope for you. I also tend to gravitate towards lost souls. I love to help, and help I shall.

The currents will drag us away from our love
Just keep your head above
Just keep your head above
Swim

Memory of Madness was born to a former slave. Her mother carried the physical wounds of her master's rash anger. However, she had moved on to be with a stallion that treated her like she was.. a princess. And though she stressed the fact of forcer's dangers to her daughter, the days of her slavery were long past. Maybe a little too long past. Memory grey up an only child. She had been born a twin, but her brother was a still birth. Her parents doted over her in the annoying way, and it eventually drove them apart. She hates her upbringing, even though she can't bring herself to blame her parents for it. They did what they had to do. That didn't mean, however, that she wouldn't leave as soon as she felt herself ready, or that she would ever want to come back. And that's exactly what she did, left and didn't even think of returning. Returning meant admitting to her parents that they were right, that she really did need their too careful protection. There overbearingness. It meant admitting that she needed them, and that she couldn't take care of herself.

Just keep your head above
Swim, swim
Just keep your head above
Swim

Clouds swirled angrily above me, all hues of black grey and blue. Lightning spit down, thunder rashly blaring in my sirens. Within moments the rain began to fall, one suicidal drop after another, until the entire sky fell upon me with harsh stings of speeding liquid. My already dark painting seeped darker, colors bleeding into eachother until I was as dark as the sky that bled upon me. Great. A storm was just what I had wanted. My flints cackled against the stony ground, slipping and slidding as the aqua hydroplaned against the bottoms of my stony legs, pulling me this way, tugging me that way. The frustration it all brought made me want to scream at the heavens, fight this monster that rained down on me. But instead, I began to seep as well. Tears joined in the flood of water that poured down my flesh, meeting the ground with a plop and a plip. If I was at home, I would've never had to be sitting in such a predicament. Ever. My parents wouldn't have heard of it.

The thought brought me a mental turn about. Just the thought of my parents not letting me do what I was doing made doing what I was doing so much more pleasurable. Giddy tingles of energy spred through my life stream, sending a tingling up my lean pillars, bringing a spurt of dart into my jog. I freed myself from the clutches of the rock and dived into the tall grass blades, letting them catch and tug at me until I collapsed in glee, rolling teasingly in their fresh scents. It clung to me as I rose, little green splotches on my darkened coat. But I harldy cared. I had the entire world! What was a few grass blades?

[.cay]

Great, Cloudy! Accepted!