Ok, what does Valensia do when she is cut off the net for weeks? Right, her angry evil mind makes up an even more evil poem about the eviellest(??) thing in the history of Final Fantasy, Garden. These are my views on Garden and the world that allowes such a thing to exist. I know it doesn't really ryhmes at times, but that wasn't really the point. (meaning: I suck at ryhmes).
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What I see . . . .
You see . . . .
A shrine for courage
A noble cause
I see a garden so savage
With no perception of loss
I see . . . .
From cradle stolen lives
Ripped from a mother's heart
Minds run through with a thousand knives
Crowded graves blooming in the Devil's yard.
I see . . . .
Innocence chased away to an early grave
Emotion hiding in its lair
Forever condemned to be a weapon's slave
Gone is the humanity left to spare
I see . . . . .
A world of treachery
Directing a children's war
Creating yet another misery
When conscience faces a bolted door
Now have I not explained
My loathing about this life
In which children are being trained
For a world of profitable strife
This is what I see . . . .
Valensia
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[ Author's note: Well, as we all know, a good poem needs no explaination (unless you can claim Shakespear as your family name) seeing however that me nor my poem qualify in both catagories, I'll explain some stuff my twisted mind thought and to answe some questions I got about this, just in case.
"I see a garden . . . . of loss"
Well, I thought this should be obvious but I guess it wasn't. With loss, I mean the lives, memories, humanity, childhood etc. all that is lost in a battle field. I don't think the cheap money-absorbed chiefs at Gardens really comprehend the value of the loss of yet another child.
"From cradle . . . mother's heart."
Here, I don't really mean that the children were kidnapped by Cid and his gang. A cradle is a symbol of childhood, and they were stolen from their childhood. With a mother's heart, I mean a mother's wish. No righteous mother would ever dream of her child growing up in such a place, right? So they were stolen from her wish for them to become happy and safe.
"Minds run . . . . knives"
Ok, obviously Cid did not stab all the little kids in the head (at least not when they had proven themselves profitable). A knife here, means ideas that contradict all that a mother would teach her child. And also it means an idea contradicting with a person's instinct. Everybody wants to be safe and continue to live as long as they can. But the forced virtue of dying in a glorious battle and the thought of giving all you can in a war (which isn't yours), goes heavily against their instinct. When you stab someone with a knife, it means that you go against nature, because you force death on a body that wasn't ready to die yet. So a stab with a knife always has fatal consequences.
Well, everything else is clear, I hope. Ah, it's always better to release your frustration in an artistic manner, instead of beating up your little sister.