Neon Genesis Evangelion- Final Genesis.
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She smiles as she gestures there
And shows to me, my wretched soul
While laughing as she kills my friends
And inches t'wards her goal.
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This person- creature- I knew so well
Rei/Lilith, this monstrosity
Had twisted into something wrong
And forged my destiny.
This creature torments my fractured mind
And though my soul has barely grown,
Where humans and Angels fear to tread
I must go alone.
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Mankind had reached His pinnacle
"But where to go from here?" asked He.
So Man created such a plan
To force His destiny.
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"Perfection!" SEELE's leader's wept.
"The plan of Instrumentality
Shall fuse us into a single being
A glorious entity!"
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Thus they deluded themselves so,
Aspiring each to be a God
Embracing their eternal nothingness-
Walking on forbidden sod.
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So Evangelion's were created,
Through blood and work and tears
For God made Man in His own image,
So what have we to fear?
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And I, a fourteen-year-old boy,
Was called by Man to serve
In the shadowy subterranean base
Of the place that we call NERV.
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'Twas there I met my destiny,
Though much, she didn't say
This quiet, familiar blue-haired girl
Who's only known as 'Rei'.
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And through the stress and strange events
The constant Angel threat
I grew close to her, and others too-
A fish caught in a net.
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Though tears and trials followed soon
With death and sorrow too.
But another man was called to NERV-
A boy named Kaoru.
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Through depression and weakness he was there,
And discussed with me the fights
With Angel's, even with my father
And what was wrong and right.
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Just when things seemed to go so well
And the Angel's were no more,
Kaoru stole the Unit 02
And Knocked on Heaven's Door.
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With no choice left, I followed my friend
Into the Angel's womb
Admitting to myself the hideous truth:
"This is Kaoru's tomb."
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Kaoru stared at what lay before
A creature, large and wan,
And Unit 02 fought Unit 01-
Ikari Shinji won.
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I held him in the EVA's hand
And forced him to be still
When Kaoru, or Tabris, revealed his face:
The Angel of Free Will.
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'Twas within those walls I learned the truth
The last Angel; Kaoru; my friend
If killed, would start my destiny
And then all life would end.
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I had no options left to me.
Kaoru was my enemy . . . .
And so the final Angel died
And found eternity.
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So it came to pass that NERV had won
The Angel's all were killed.
But secret agenda's were incomplete:
My father's final will.
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He took Rei down to Heaven's Door
And presented Lilith there
An Angel, hidden within these walls-
SEELE took to the Air.
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For Unit 01 was God-like now,
A sentient, living thing
JSSDF were out of time
So EVA 05 took wing.
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Within the Central Dogma, Rei
And Lilith merged somehow,
While Gendo spoke those fated words:
"Third Impact is now."
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And within the MAGI computer room,
NERV made it's final stand
To save their lives, and the EVA's too,
E'en though they had no plan.
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While Asuka woke beneath the lake
And within Unit 02
She felt her mother's presence near;
And EVA 05 was screwed.
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The EVA had five minutes left
To stop the foe's advance
And Asuka fought, 'till one was left:
To EVA 05, "Let's dance."
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They fought like mad, and Asuka reigned,
Unit 02 had won,
'Till EVA 05 regrew it's wings,
And then the fight was done.
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Unit 02 was left stranded,
Immobilised and still,
For Asuka had no power left.
So EVA 02 was killed.
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And I, in EVA 01 emerged
And saw my broken friend-
And Lilith's form, huge, grotesque:
I knew this was The End.
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Unit 01 and I were solely one,
We rose into the sky;
And I saw the nightmarish Lilith/Rei
While every human died.
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Red spheres emerged from tainted sky,
The soul of every man
And grew into a single ball-
Was this my father's plan?
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Within a monstrous hand, Lilith
Or Rei, the two were one
Offered to me Instrumentality-
"Shinji, accept or shun?"
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I felt my fear catch me again,
This giant Angel Rei
Until I felt a calming peace
What would I, could I say?
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I looked at Rei, my heart was still,
Mankind, or nothingness, or I
I looked this creature in her red eyes:
"This is where your dream dies."
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The creature cried; the ball exploded,
The earth was tainted red
And Lilith bled, and fell to Earth:
Instrumentality was dead.
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I wandered the barren earth alone,
Unsure of what I'd done.
Until I met the last survivor
Next to Unit 01.
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How she survived, I'll never know.
My roommate, pilot, friend
Asuka Langley-Sohryu
Had made it to the end.
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And so we sat, by EVA 01,
We thought of what to do;
I looked her softly in the eyes:
"I will take care of you."
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(I am so proud of this poem!)