Beacon Of Hope

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Like many of my deviations, this one has a long story.

I was trying to make a photomanipulation inspired by Nine Inch Nails artwork and the poster for the movie "White Noise". I wrote a poem, which was awful, but I thought people wouldn't say anything bad about it if I hid it in a friggin' amazin' photomanip full of effects and layers and bells and whistles. You know, one that would make my "Agony Of The Last One" look like my "Activity".

I failed.

I made seven designs for the pictures, but it turned pretty bad. I erased all the files from my PC and remade it the next day. It looked even worse. I felt like a superhero without powers.

After I decided to end my hiatus, I started over. I re-read the poem and re-worded it a bit, then worked on my PC for more than four hours. I did fifteen designs, and I still didn't like it. Fiddling with the picture exhausted me, so I said, "enough. I can't take this anymore. I'll just leave it as is."

Here are the lyrics to the poem, if you can't make out the words:

Your message has a tag.
I can't beat the cipher.
Only a path can help me
find the key to the area.

If darkness is blissful,
am I a blessed node?
I need you to receive
the amp in the jack.

I need, I need,

I need...

...a beacon of hope.

Their transmission fails
to touch the harmless pad.
I shall never find the way
unless you tell me what to do.

All I need is a clue.
Not as simple as some would say.
Just a flash, a bit, a tiny piece.
A part in the straightened passage.

All I need is

a beacon of hope.