Hey! It's Jessica! First fanfic! Woohoo! Okay, it's not really a fanfic…It's a poem I wrote during history. Right after I finished guessing for all the answers on my test! I guess this is a kinda TeitoxMikage thing. Well, enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own 07-Ghost. If I did, well…I'm not sure what would happen.

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Living is Harder
Sometimes, as the darkness closes around me, I wonder why I live.
After all, you aren't here. I should be where you are.
It would be so easy to just fall asleep and never awake again.
What do I have to live for?
I was born to live for you, only you.
You were the only reason I was living.
Now that I have found you, why did you leave me alone again?
Why?
As I stare at the world through blank eyes, I realized it has changed.
It isn't the same.
It's missing something.
It's missing your smile, your laugh.
The world has become dark to me.
The sun has left and I am engulfed in darkness.
You were the sun that pushed away the clouds and turned the dark into light.
Which is easier, to live or to die?
To stand and walk or to stay fallen and not move forward, to stay with you, in a frozen time that doesn't exist anymore, what is truly right?
Should I face the next day without you?
If I look at the sun, will it truly be light to me without you?
To be without you is the worst fate I can have, because you were part of me.
You were the other half of me, the rose in a wasteland.
The blood-stained walls are closing around me.
The blood is red, as red as a rose.
Slowly, the rose wilts and I start to fall.
My knees hit the ground, you are dead.
You accepted your death, but I do not.
You are still alive in my heart.
I remember your warm brown eyes that closed.
As soon as they closed, I fell and never stood again.
I cannot live without you.
I reach out to you, but you are too far for me to reach you.
I want to be where you are.
Living is harder.
Dying is easier.
So, I stand.
Even though I want to be with you, I must move ahead.
With every step I take, I become farther away from you.
If I fall, I will stand again because that is what you wanted, right?
That's why you taught me to stand.
So that if I fall, and can get up and keep on walking.
If I keep on walking this road, it will eventually end, right?
And at the end you'll be there, smiling.
So I'll live, because that's what you wanted.
If dying is easier and the shortest way to you, why do I keep moving on?
Even though everything is crashing down and the tears don't stop, I stand.
Because you taught me, you taught me to stand and to move forward.
It will disappoint you if I fall and never stand again.
If I stand, then you'll smile.
I will do whatever it takes to make you happy.
If I've learned anything, it's that dying is easier.
To stand alone is harder.
Living is harder.
I will never forget.
I promise.