A/N: Yay! I finally managed to write a fic without the main main focus being Axel! (though, New Girl isn't about Axel... and of course, non-KH stuff isn't about him either...)

I was not quite so pleased with the other poetic works that I wrote (I liked them okay, but they didn't turn out as good as I'd hoped). But I REALLY like this one.

Review (please).

The past, outlined in smoke and dust

And future, cold with moss and rust

Consuming darkness, burning fear

To each, agony far too near

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A broken heart, ripped clean in two

Pitch darkness swallowing the blue

And last, a body, hollow, cold

All torn apart in days of old

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Balanced between both life and death

Shifting shadows; ragged breath

Sleeping alone within the void

All because one with darkness toyed

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Then others follow day by day

A shattered doll driven away

He who would flee and walk on by

And last, one caught in flaming sky

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Stories mingle, strain and break

All wiped out by one cruel mistake

Memories fading, crystal snow

Inferno bears the final blow

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In silence, darkness, sleep they wait

One through ten and three-five-eight

Damaged, battered, lost in time

Names scratched out of tale and rhyme

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So many hearts who bear the brunt

Of the worlds' monster's great affront

To each his own is not the way

Not all can fight another day

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Those taken down in another's fight

While straining to find cleansing light

Release from the hell where they live

Surrendering all they have to give

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Be there just one to set them free?

No, not just one, not two, but three!

The tunnel's end is now in sight

If they reach out, they'll find the light

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It's not the end, you are not done

There is a battle to be won

A fight to bring you all back home

So you will never be alone