This is a Shakespearean sonnet (14 line-structure, 3 quatrains and a couplet, alternate lines rhyme, and iambic pentameter) written in memory of my best friend, the Weighted Companion Cube from Portal .

It helped me through the chamber seventeen
before I killed it—what a dreadful act!
The greatest buddy I have ever seen
My heart is sad: a piece it did subtract.

Some hearts was painted on its cubic flanks
The color rose and white and black and gray
The blocky corners featureless and blank.
I set a record–burned without delay.

The voice of GLaDOS overrode my mind
And fratricide it ordered me to do
My conscience slowly, surely, was maligned
My moral judgment quietly subdued.

Forev’r shall live the story of the cube
My only friend who burned up in the tube*.

*I’m referring to the Aperture Science Emergency Intelligence Incinerator.

Obviously, this would make sense to you only if you’ve played the game Portal. If you haven’t, well, play it! It’s definitely one of the better games released in the past few years and definitely the most creative. First-person puzzlers are awesome!

On the other hand, if you are short on funds, try Narbacular Drop, the spiritual precursor to Portal.

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