This was another Honorable Mention winner. The theme for that week was "Nightmares" and the whole situation with Gogeta and Wimp had just occurred. What I had on my mind, though, was a friend who had lost his character to an imposter -- someone who convinced Nexon that they were him. Eventually Nexon just did what was quick, easy, and unfair, and deleted JonFord. The shock, though, of seeing a friend, and then finding out that he wasn't my friend, not the person who he should have been, stuck with me. I knew I had a poem growing in my head, so when I went to relax with a hot bubble bath, I kept a clipboard handy, and wrote Suddenly Strangers in the bathtub.

Technically, this is one of my simplest poems. It is written in my usual iambic tetrameter with an ABAB rhyme scheme, a slight difference from my more common ABCB. The last line sums up the whole poem, and hits home with the real nightmare: A stranger posing as a friend.