Disclaimer: I don't own Death Note.
Author's Note: This is a new project of mine. I was startled to notice how much Death Note affected my poetry after I became engrossed in the series, and decided to compile the pieces written about (or that can be construed as pertaining to) DN and/or its characters. Hope this turns out all right.
L is up first. (Shock and awe.)
deus ex machina - god in the machine: in fiction, an improbable character or unconvincing event used to resolve a plot.
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Deus ex Machina
A lonely light in the late night or early morning shines with luminous luster.
The glow, in the boy, is reflected
Like an angelic presence,
A god in the machine,
In the empty eyes that swallow up all.
Twin black holes, with depth as oblivion
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What do they see? What do they wish?
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None is known out, while all is known in.
The dark scars of sleeplessness are nooses hanging from vacant gallows.
Hiding humanity behind ethic and excellence, endless effort into everything acted.
An image projected
A man cold and detached
While a lonesome child waits behind a pale and flimsy shroud.