Taking It Up A Notch

Hmm... Welcome back everyone !!
Today's title is:'Taking it up a notch'. Now you must be wondering taking what up a notch. Hmm well the 'standard'. As I've previously mentioned, the aa bb rhyme scheme is quite basic and in order to look and sound a bit more professional, we poets use the ab ab rhyme scheme.

Well well have you all read Dan Brown's Deception Point' ??? Epic thriller !! I don't know about you guys but I have and was awestruck. So I wrote a poem on what I found the most touching part of the entire book. When Rachel, Michael and that scientist guy lay on the ice shelf drifting off to sea after a failed assassination attempt by the delta team. Yeah and one more thing. In the poem, I've placed myself in the place of Rachel Sexton. Haha it actually made a lot more sense that way.

The poem, I'm not sure if it's aptly titled by then, here it goes !!

      Deadly Deception

I wake up amidst a dream
To the darkness surrounding me
It felt like no other dream
Just the truth engulfing me

I lay there motionless and still
Struggling with none but myself
Trying to fight off the chill
All alone on the ice shelf

At a short distance two others lay
Battered and torn apart were they
Bruised and shattered:'twas their last day
Kept telling myself there's got to be some way

Deception upon deception
And here we were
In the Arctic beyond our wildest perception
Praying for salvation, we didn't stir

The ice cracked and growled
And with a fierce storm on its way
The wind roared and howled
I'd seen no darker a day

As numbness started to creep in
I reflected on my life before I'd freeze
When all of a sudden tingled my skin
And the next moment I was on my knees

I screamed in pain but with no avail
As each tortured muscle rippled under the strain
This isn't the end and I will not fail
It came down to no pain no gain

With all my might relentlessly I banged
The ice shelf with my ice axe
Throughout the sea it's echo rang
Drawing the beast into the sac

Through the waves as it's hull paved
I very well knew that we'd been saved.