Sakura
By: Hitokiri Gentatsu
A/N: Just a poem I wrote after finishing the Seisou Hen. If you have not had a chance to see this closing chapter of the Rurouni Kenshin saga, I highly recommend you do. It's very powerful and moving. As for the lack of punctuation here…My poetry tends toward very little of that and this may contain spoilers for the end of the Seisou Hen. You have been warned. Please do read and review. Let me know if this is any good and if you can guess who is speaking here. Arigatou!
"I am not afraid of death but my life is not my own…"
Himura Kenshin to Yukishiro Enishi
Seisou Hen: Part Two
Sakura blooms for an instant
Translucent, fragile, momentary
As life
Life is but an instant in time
Only a memory
Ebbing and flowing on the tide
Faded…fading
A memory lost
A spirit receding into final darkness
A life cut down in its prime
Much like the sakura falling
Ere it fades
They fall around me
And I, with them.