A/N: Written for the Mega Prompts Challenge, writing prompts #10 - over 1000 word poem

Wonderful Memories Every Day

It was painstaking work
to create a world

But she had all the time in the world
in which to do it
because he slumbered
and no-one else had been born:
that lay in her hands: the world
and the people who would live in it.

She could erase them all,
or create them all.

Except him.

He slept in her lap
and she was the God.

And the world she made
would be written into his memories
and the old world erased.

That world they came from.
That cruel world that had ripped
them apart before they'd even
been born together

And they should have been
born together.

They were twins,
after all.

But she died and he lived
and she didn't resent him for that
but she still wanted to be there:
beside him.

She resented her though.
Haruhi.
The little sister who was born
and got to spent time with him
where she could not.
The little sister who replaced her.

She'd erase her.
She could erase her.
She had the power to erase her.

But erasing her would make him sad
even if he'd never know.
He'd been saddened by her absence
after all.
And maybe he'd be
a little sad as well.

She'd let her exist,
then,
but she couldn't leave her be
because she'd be the loose screw
in this world.
They couldn't both be there.

Christ
and anti-Christ.

God
and the devil

And since she's the one rewriting
the world, Haruhi
becomes the devil
who'll tear it apart

So I have to leave her in
but put her in a place
where she can't tear
the world apart.

She'll exist in this place
but she won't be his sister,
our sister: 'I'm sorry, Haruhi,
but I can't share. Not this time.'

They've never had to share
and maybe they never will.

She'll make her something else instead.
An old friend who's not around anymore,
just to make absolutely sure she won't
mess things up again.

(Deep down, she knows
it's not Haruhi's fault she was born
and she was not,
but still, she can't forgive that:
that she was replaced
by her.)

So that's Haruhi settled
and her parents are the same: they're
all part of the package that erased her
from the world, except her wish
that reaches out and
has finally reached

And so Haruhi and her parents,
all of them will be tucked away
in some corner of the world
but what world will allow two children
to live apart from their parents
like that? The parents will have to go.

'I'm sorry, Mum, Dad,
but you two were the ones who left me
and who replaced me,
so I have to leave you know.'

And so it was decided.
They were left out
of this new world.

And in the house they shared,
it will be just the two of them
and that's always all they need.

Then there'll be school.
Quiet people.
Loud people.
Boring people.
Fun people.

And they'll make lots of memories
there. They'll live happily, laugh happily,
go to school happily and make all the memories
in the world to fill the photo albums
that she's absent from. They'll do all the things
they've had no chance to do before.
They'll do everything. Be everything.
Learn everything. Embrace everything
and then they'll go home to each other
because that's how it always should
have been.

It'll be a world with adults and children
like the current world, but no-one
will split them apart. That's the main thing.
The important thing.
The only thing.

So long as they stay together, the rest of the world
can stay the same. She doesn't know the world
after all. Unless there's parts that hurt him.
She'll erase them. If she finds them
now and afterwards
she'll erase them. But aside from that, the world
can stay the same.

It's just Haruhi, and their parents. They will have
to be erased so her world doesn't crumble
too fast. And he can't remember them either
or her world will crumble too. He can't remember
the past they didn't share. That's fair, then.
They can make new memories together.

She'll rewrite the past and put it into everybody's heads
but not his. He'll be a blank slate and that's fair
and it's also kind, the gift she gives him because
he's her precious brother and she can manipulate the scene
but not twist the memories that slumber
in his heart.

Maybe a part of her wants him to recall, some day
the life he had, and the wish he made,
and all he sacrificed to bring her this god-like
power to change the world, to change their lives
into what she imagines them to be.

She won't chain him with a false past.
Because she knows it's false and he won't know at all.
They'll make their future together and it'll be the truth.
Wonderful memories every day.

Wonderful memories every day
and they'll do everything they never got the chance to do
even if he might wonder, why didn't they do such things
before, in their youth? But they haven't, because they had
no youth together, no time together at all
except in the womb and even that was not complete…

They'll make wonderful new true memories
every day.

And so that's the world. She's solved it all in her head
and now all that remains is for him to awake
and they'll begin their new lives together.

There'll be questions. He remembers nothing but her
after all. There'll be adjusting because she knows, she's seen
but she's never lived, after all. But they'll manage.
They'll live together, laugh together.
They'll make wonderful new true memories
together.

This world is their stage, the stage their powerful wish
has given birth too and they'll dance on it to their heart's content
and they'll dance forever.

She won't hand him over to anyone.
It's that kind of world.
They'll be happy,
and together

Because they have all the time they want
in this world.