Tenken no Soujiro

By Raven Graeve

A small boy

A murderous smile

A kindly soul

A tiring cry

A crazy mind

A lying master

A fiery temper

A brave life

All in One

These traits create

A young assassin

Called Tenken no Soujiro.

He kills without mercy

He smiles all the while

He destroys all happiness

Never discriminating

He never worries

He always takes

What is most precious

His master is worse

Never caring,

Even for those who he controls

Makoto Shishio,

The Second Assassin.

Seta Soujiro,

His life is wasted

On lasting ideas

Of strength and of weak

His family did die

By his hand alone

Their heads were cut off

And let lay around

Seta Soujiro,

Ten years gone

Along with Shishio,

His life was long.

His new life began

After a fight

His opponent was stubborn

And would not kill

He's a man among men

Many would say,

Yet his life was spent

Much the same way

Himura Kenshin,

The First Assassin.

Of all assassins,

His reasons are clearest,

But his future unknown

Within all who see.

Soujiro fought Kenshin

And cried out aloud,

"If your way is right

Why didn't you protect me?"
Soujiro lost sanity,

And sprung forth in attack.

The fight ended in sorrow

As he lay exhausted,

Soujiro thought,

'I'll start anew,'

And so he does.

Now he wanders

Around and about

Nobody knows where

And very few care

He imitates Kenshin,

As much as he dares.

To find his own truth,

He'll risk forever.