Author's Note: This paradelle uses much of the text found in the video for Pearl Jam's "Jeremy" - I thought it would be interesting to use this text in a poem about Ryou Bakura and his relationship with Yami Bakura and Zork.

Paradelle: One of the more demanding French fixed forms; a poem of four six-line stanzas in which the first and second lines, as well as the third and four lines of the first three stanzas, must be identical. The fifth and six lines, which traditionally resolve these stanzas, must use all the words from the preceding lines and only those words. Similarly, the final stanza must use every word from all the preceding stanzas and only those words.


Ryou

By: Aesa Bast

Described as ignored, harmless, numb
Described as ignored, harmless, numb
Because I say so
Because I say so
I say described as harmless, numb
Because so ignored

The unclean spirit entered -
The unclean spirit entered -
Dark, disturbed, wicked
Dark, disturbed, wicked
The wicked spirit, dark, unclean
Entered disturbed

Erased the child
Erased the child
He said it didn't matter
He said it didn't matter
The child erased didn't matter
He it said

The child described as ignored, harmless
Erased because the wicked spirit entered
I say it so disturbed - he said, didn't matter
Numb
Dark
Unclean