Verses on the Death of Emily Hatcher

[From Emily's Perspective]

They say to die young is a shame,
Where's the proof to back up that claim?
Everyone believes I haven't yet lived,
But there isn't a moment I wouldn't relive.
At the top of my lungs I say, "No,
I never had to be a widow,
Never saw what the world became.
I died without anyone to blame.
If anything I am glad.
Happy I'm gone, not mocking the sad.
I'm not saying that I wanna go,
Just telling you not to feel so low.
I'm always just heartbeats away.
I'm here when you have something to say."
So there, I have expressed my thoughts.
Keep a smile on, all one million watts.
Don't cry because I am now gone.
Cry because all your assumptions were dead-on.

"Othello" assignment

I have a friend, he's mostly made of pain.
He wakes up, drives to work,
and then straight back home again.
He once cut one of my nightmares out of paper.
I thought it was beautiful, I put it on a record cover.
And I tried to tell him he had a sense of color and composition so magnificent.
And he said "Thank you, please but your flattery is truly not becoming me.
Your eyes are poor.
You are blind.
You see, no beauty could have come from me.
I am a waste of breath, of space, of time."

I didn't really have a specific character, but the poem is supposed to represent Iago because he had a front up of being a genuine/beautiful person but really he was a traitor and displeased with himself.