There is something about the passion of a  performer that draws you in even if the actual content of the performance is not the best. This is what I saw at the English department’s open mike. Yes, some pieces were better then others, but the passion I felt in each performance was consistent.

I especially liked this piece a performer wrote about his mother. He performed it so seamlessly, and with so much feeling, I could see every line he read coming to life in front of me. He ended his piece with a brilliant haunting line:

” Why would you want to wake up from your nightmares when the person haunting your dreams is still alive in them?”