Courage of Your Convictions

Author: Green Phantom Queen

Rated: T

Summary: A collection of poems set in the Horseshoes universe detailing a character's process over a certain event. Nothing special.

Notes: Just an experimental thing regarding poems and the like.

Poem 1: Were We Friends?

Speaker: Gentaro Kisaragi

Story: Horseshoes and Hand Grenades

"To have the courage of your convictions – Being brave to do what you feel is right despite the pressure placed on you."

Ryusei...

When we first met, I didn't know what to make of you.

All I knew was that you were not revealing your true self.


When you punched me across the face hours later,

I knew that I could befriend you...

And yet you still continued to hide behind such a pitiful mask.


Why did you have the need to do so?

Did you hate us so much?

What did I, and the rest of my friends in the Kamen Rider Club,

Ever do to displease you so?


In the Rabbit Hatch, you helped us out in so many ways

Making our job in helping those who became Zodiarts easier.

Even though you kept that facade on you, we supported you

Sacrificing our very souls to do whatever it was that you need to do.


But how were we paid?

By you stepping in front of the killing blow to end the Aries Zodiarts.

How could you let all our times together be put to waste?


You defeated me without remorse, ensuring that I wouldn't be able to fight back.

So I was weak to the one-inch punch. And it was there

That your true intentions as Kamen Rider Meteor were revealed.


I wasn't angry at you at all. I was happy.

I promised you on that day that I would do anything I could

To make you happy...

If dying was what you wanted, then so be it.


Ryusei...

I think this is the first time you've ever been honest with me.

I had the chance to face you head on and helped you out.

I'm glad...even if it...killed me...