A/N: This isn't as good as the first poem, but I think it's a decent attempt at showing how Lelouch taking on the role of Zero affected them as siblings.
s e p e r a t e : 0
Lelouch had never known it could break
How would he?
His life was so bound up with hers
That when he tried to find the ends of the strings and
~u~n~t~a~n~g~l~e~
He didn't even know where to start
Because they were connected
e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e
But with four words:
1. I
2. Accept
3. Your
4. Contract.
It all started to
f
a
l
l
apart.
All he needed was eye contact, and he could make anyone do anything.
(How strange, then, that the only eyes he couldn't look into were hers)
He used his power the same way he used everything else he had.
For her.
(A gentler world, that was her wish, and he promised himself that he would make it come true)
But in doing everything for her, he forgot
to do everything with her.
He left home early
Came home late,
Spent most of his time at home in his room.
~She sat at the kitchen table and folded her wishes for his happiness into cranes~
He murdered
Manipulated
Sacrificed his own innocence at the altar of his sister's.
~She started to forget the sound of her brother's voice~
The threads
stretched thin
and came u n d o n e
LelouchandNunnally
Became
Lelouch-and-Nunnally
And then
Lelouch and Nunnally
Until the gaps were just too wide to bridge.
But even after everything that had bound them had been s e p a r a t e d
Lelouch clung to broken pieces of thread
Slippery in blood-soaked fingers
And tried to re-weave her broken dream.
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