A Rabbit Full of Doubt

by reminiscent-afterthought

[poetry collection] Even the plainest words were false, but buried beneath the most abstract ones still lay the truth. [Includes poems from the universes of Doubt and its spiritual successors.]

1. who's the liar, who's a lie (Doubt)

A/N: Collection of poems, for different challenges and a mix of Doubt and Judge canon. This one's for the Mega Prompts Challenge (Anime and Manga Fanfiction Challenges), writing prompts #36 – write a poem between 8 and 20 lines

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A Rabbit Full of Doubt
1: who's a liar, when's a lie

It had seemed like such a simple and innocent thing:
a happy quest, a happy thought –
how was I to see any sadness, any tears, in it?
But there were tears. Yours. And I'd been blind
to them. Instead I'd just smiled and walked on

But why didn't you come to me before?
Didn't you trust me with the truth, instead of that lie
you spread – because, in the end, I wasn't the one who'd lied:
I'd said someone had been waiting for me, and someone had
though if I'd known what you'd wanted to talk about that day
I would have stayed.
It was for you I'd gone
anyway.

But why didn't you come to me before? Or after that:
why did you lie – but I can't put blame on that, can I?
How were we to know that one lie
would destroy all of us?