Personification - Part 1

Author: Kathryn E. Fillmore
Written: 2/5/08
Introduction:
Personification is so much like music. When you use lifelike descriptions to characterize an inanimate objects, it's strangely remenicent of an aria, a melody, a song. A song that tells a story and paints a picture. It does both.

I see a pencil on the desk. It's subtle presence is slightly unnerving. What kind of complicated steps has it performed in it's lifetime? It has danced it's dance, guided by it's five fingered partner. It gives of itself, a little bit, at each dance, never slowing down, until it is left as nothing...