A Compilation of Final Fantasy VII Character Poems
Cloud's Poem (Trochaic heptameter)
Is it real, or just a dream
Can I trust what I'm thinking?
I thought I was somebody
but now I just fade slowly
I used to be content, I
used to have a life, but now
I find a fake past. Unreal.
Nothing in my head is REAL
I thought of fame, and the like
He was my friend, Sephiroth
He was the best that could be
But no, that never happened
Yes No Yes No – what is true
Is it just a memory,
or did it really happen?
Yes I say, but no is true
My past is gone, it never was
Me, Cloud, is he even real?
I have too much confusion
What happened to the real me?
No Yes No Yes – am I me
Jenova changed my past life
Implanted new memories
Now I'm gone, just a fantasy
Aerith's Poem (Choriambic tetrameter)
Me and my mom
left on the day.
I met my dad
but he was dead.
I could tell it
He was not there.
I see the Earth
on the inside
I am unique
dif'rent then you
One special thing
ability
Talk with the Earth
is what I do
Lifestream, Earth's spirit
is where I live
When I am gone
I will live in
what is left of
the Earth that day
I must stop them
So I have one
One Earth to live
One to survive
Sephiroth is
the last person
I will see, and
that is okay
I know it will
Happen, my death
so before that...
I have to be the last me
Sephiroth's Poem (In a unique abstract form)
Bridge
Feet hit wood.
Me, Tifa, Zack, some soldiers
Across the bridge
Crack!
The bridge snap
fall, into the hills
land, rocky mountains
Climb.
up to the reactor
to find out what's wrong
Me, Zack, a soldier
Enter.
What! I see the label
J-E-N-O-V-A
Mother, is that you!
Lie.
It's all a lie!
I'm an experiment
Rage.Anger.Frustation.Hate to all!
Destruction.
I am not human
AHHHH!
I thirst for others death
Leave.
I must take Jenova with me
Together, we will
Destroy this world.
An explanation of the poems
I decided to provide this explanation as you might not know the story of Final Fantasy VII. Cloud's poem is about him contrasting his real and fake past. You see, at one point in his life, a creature (Jenova) changed his memory to a new persona, that of Sephiroth. When Cloud finds out, he begins to go mad. The poem takes place in his instance of chaos. Aerith's poem is basically her entire life. She is the last Cetra, an ancient race that suffered a massacre (much like the Jewish in World War II). The massacre was cause by Jenova. Her ancestors were the last survivors, but died out. Aerith is the last one left. She often feels lonely, but Cetra were people of the Earth, they could talk to it, even talking to what were representations of dead ones. She found out here father was dead. Her mother was attacked once, and then a lady came by and rescued Aerith. Aerith was raised from young with this lady. Surrounded by death, not even Aerith could escape this. She was eventually killed by Sephiroth. Sephiroth's poem is an abstract little poem I thought up of. I like this style, kind of like e. e. cummings. Sephiroth grew up the strongest. He lived a life of always being the greatest. On the trip to a Shin-ra reactor, he finds out the reason he is so strong is because he was experimented on, and goes mad because of this. He takes the creature that mutated him (Jenova, the same one that Cloud was experimented on and killed Aerith's ancestors) and plans to use it to destroy the Earth. It's interesting to see how Jenova is intertwined with these three people. I think it's time for one last poem
Jenova's Poem (an acrostic poem)
Down from the heavens, a calamity of the sky
Ending everything in sight
Shooting down everything
Triumphing, never ending
Repeatedly, Jenova would always nearly destroy everything
Unceasingly, though, it will be stopped
Chronicles of Jenova happen over and over
Time repeats itself
Inevitably, Jenova will reappear
Only reappearing to be destroyed again
Now you know, Jenova's legacy will never come true
A collection of poems, by Jacovie!
