first of all...i want to apologize to everyone impatiently waiting for chapter 23 of Last Sacrifice...i PROMISE im diligently working on that chapter...it will be up...soonly...got sidetracked by this project at the moment...i do hope you will forgive this little saint's indiscretions...and find these next works i post to your liking...so... this piece is the first in a series of twelve poems i am attempting to compose based on each individual child of the himes...a friend on deviant art challenged me to write this series and i simply could not let the gauntlet fall without picking it up...lol...she's promised that once the 12 poems are up...she will begin the artwork to accompany each one...i am sooo looking forward to seeing her artistic take on these words...also...if you want to see this poem in its original form..check out my deviant art site...you'll find me under SaintOfAngst of course...lol...i was very pleased the way the poem looks on the da site...i did a lot of work with the fonts and presentation so check it out if you want to see how this author...envisioned the piece to be displayed...enough bullshit chatter...i hope you enjoy my representation in words of kiyohime... -insert obligatory disclaimer here-
"Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart."
~~Christina Westover~~
KIYOHIME
In memories past my mother Opehila
Drown her heartbreak in a watery grave of love's last elegy...
Taking with her into that deep oblivion a love that never was
Sinking like hope into the wet embrace of the only lover
Fate deemed she should ever hold...death.
And I wept at the loss of that mother.
Born from the unholy union of unrequited love and madness
I am no shadowed stranger to the bitter taste of devotion rejected.
It fuels my cold blooded veins with a poison that leeches out on each breath I take
Killing that which most I desire...demand...bleed.
And I wept at the loss of that lover.
Anchin...do you yet realize the monster your callous refusal has created
Do the bones of your ancient betrayal, entombed in a monk's silent cowl,
Ache in empathetic anguish with each lost paramour
That slips through my hungry arms?
For it was you, old friend...dead liar...never lover...who left my heart orphaned
On the banks of the river Hidaka; drenched in crippled hope of ever being worthy of
Adoration.
And I wept at the loss of that woman.
Destined to be but a wandering child of covetous desires...a savage orphan of blind
Obsessiveness...
I'll paper the cracks in this ancient heart with the broken promises of a thousand more
Lies...
Salvation nothing but a borrowed moment of unrealized schizophrenia,
Forever unguarded on the banks of the abyss this absence of acceptance has fathered.
And I wept at the realization of that condemnation.
~end~
did a lil research on kiyohime, duran and the others and found some very cool references to actual legends mixed into the creation of each child in the anime...gonna be working that into the poems if i can...thus the obscure referencing of Anchin/Hidaka River...part of the legend of Kiyohime...let me know how you liked/didn't like this piece...i can use all opinions in fleshing out the ones to follow... the next poem to be posted in this series...DURAN...thanks so much for taking the time to read my work... =)
~the saint~
