A/N: I should probably be working on my other fanfics, specifically DMDC, instead of writing angsty poetry, but this came to mind, and I couldn't resist writing it. I'm actually fairly proud of these. Anyway, these take place after the CoS movie, if you haven't guessed already. Please do read and review!
Waiting for You (Winry Rockbell)
Sometimes I wonder about you
I wonder whether it was worth knowing you
Wonder whether I should consider myself
The luckiest girl to ever live
Just for knowing you
Just for getting to be your friend all these years
Or should I do the opposite?
Should I resent having known you,
Resent you in particular,
Because it didn't make a difference in the end,
Because you were such a big part of my life
And now you're gone?
But no, I could never hate you
No matter how hard I try
Because if there's anything I know
It's that it's just the way you are.
You were never meant to stay in
The tiny, unimportant town we used to call home
Never meant to stay here when
There were bigger, more important things in the world
For those beautiful sunshine eyes of yours to see
That much had always been clear to me
Clear in the simple fact that
You never seemed to fit in here
You always managed to outshine the others
And you never, ever seemed to try.
Remember the old days?
Remember how innocent we used to be, my love?
Even after we faced loss,
The most devastating loss of our young lives,
We were still children,
Still terribly naïve,
Still not quite grasping the true horrors of the world
Until that night
That terrible, horrible night
The night I truly saw for myself
Just how very human you were,
A fact I knew, to some degree
But never fully understood until then.
It was a night that I couldn't ever forget
And I'm sure it's the same for you
A night forever etched into our memories,
The night we grew up far too quickly.
It was all too soon, though,
That you left for the first time
And I waited for you
I had no choice but to wait
Wait as patiently as I possibly could
For you to come back.
You always came back
Even when it seemed like you wouldn't
You still always came back
At least, until you didn't
Until I saw you leave
And knew in my heart you were never coming back
I know why you did it, my love
I know why you felt you had to leave
It was because you thought there was no other way
Because you were trying to be nothing but selfless
Just like you always are!
But it doesn't stop me from being selfish
Doesn't stop me from wishing you were here
Wishing you didn't have to leave
Wondering what it would be like if you hadn't needed to leave
Wondering if you ever loved me in the first place
(I always dream that you did,
That you still do,
No matter how doubtful it seemed)
It's funny, but in weddings,
The bride and groom always say,
"'Till death do us part,"
"'Till death do us part,"
Yet in our case, I feel it is the reverse
In our case, it is the tragedy called life that has parted us
And day by day,
Hour by hour,
It is seeming more like death is the only chance
For us to reunite once more
(You'd probably be skeptical of that
But could you really blame me?
It is all the hope I have left)
And so I wait for that day
Pray for that day,
Because when it comes
I will wait no longer
I will never leave your side
I will follow you into Hell if need be, my love
And there will be not a single force in Heaven or on Earth
That could ever hope to tear me away from you
But until that happens,
I'll wait.
I'll wait, no matter how long it takes
Wait for you, my love, as I've always done
Because waiting is all I am able to do.