Beyond The Horizon
Disclaimer: All Utena characters, themes, and situations belong to Chito Saito and Be-Papas. I do own any form of the Utena series. This poem deals with Anthy and what her final thoughts were before the series ended.
Our revolution is being born,
Never was I so certain.
Though our touch, our flesh is torn,
There is still that transparent curtain.
Monochromes of my tormented past I will release.
Silent words of a premature farewell,
The perpetual, nefarious puppet-craft will finally cease
Ready to walk out, the signal of a duel, the duel's bell.
I cast my head up high, not low to greet the dead flowers,
To higher goals, my vocation of the promise between us.
Of every pigment, a rotational sphere with a fixed drop of color for the spring's showers.
No longer am I like the sailboat at rest in a harbor, or the car without its key all at rust.
The world I will now turn my back on, I shan't forget,
That is where I met her, my prince with the deep azure eyes.
The men and woman, my ode to the world of the living beings and everyone I met,
Someone opened my coffin, "RESTRAINT", I am now open to real pain, misery, and lies.
However, I will move on, my footsteps will die eventually,
I smile my first with an existence I know can count the strands of time,
Life is an anagram, whichever path I am willing to create.
A continental follow-the-leader; my hands are cold, the coldness forever mine,
The new world before my eyes waits for my arrival, marking time, seconds replete, on this magical, living plate.
I say her name, feel her essence, such a phantasmagorical pulse, I would love to scream,
"Free!' "Free!" This is not Lucifer's trinkets of tricks.
I breathe deep, I begin my dream,
One, two three, four, five, six...
I step out, across the line of the Revolution named "Eden" past the deep and winding crack,
I left Ohtori Academy,
And I'm never looking back.