Author's Note: If Kikyo finally took the remaining part of Kagome's soul as InuYasha, who came to late to save her, watches.


Damned

Within my grasp, her tender light

Slipping through my fingers like a soft green waterfall

Flowing from one to another

Giving back life to the one that she was; never is, never was

Skin of pale moonlight beneath my touch

No jasmine scent to fill my thoughts

No breath to caress my hardened features

Gone now, into the other; a face I knew so well

She is the one who held - pierced - my heart; a single arrow

I am hers forever


Rising from scattered ashes and scorched earth; no scent but sweet ruination

Beauty matching the woman beneath my grasp

I forget who she is as I stare into long dead eyes; poison pearls

Black as the soul who took their sight away

I rise, leaving a limp shell at my feet; so beautiful in tragic repose

Running my claws through midnight hair

Like hers; no stars gleam in these silk strands

No life in her gaze or warmth in the hand resting on my face

A bare goddess before me, but I feel nothing - remorse; remember

Her name surfaces in my swallowed consciences

A soft white flower floating atop a turbulent sea

I had come to late; her fate my mistake


She who saved me from myself; discarded at my feet

Shame; I tighten my grasp on the imposter before me

I feel the flow of her stolen soul; beating against its clay bars

Poisoning it slowly with hate and the lingering webs of death

Doomed to hell, this fragile clay doll; filled with past regrets

Hostage a soul and aura so pure and undeserving

Of this punishment never meant for her; for me to break my heart, soul

Lost love - feelings betrayed - fill my porous stone heart; a hole blackened

Hate and blind rage are drowned out by sadness and love lost; guilt my eternal mistress

Love - so strong - for the fallen angel laid before me; skin of stars dust and ethereal light

Jasmine lingers on false skim - in my memory it lives - and I seize it


Rage; I pull apart this haunting urn, ash all that remains

Free; a soul as green as the eyes - seas of mystery - I long to see

Kneeling I pull the women I had waited - fought - for

Freeing me heart, body, and soul - now so cold; I hold her frame close

To hear my heart beating beneath skin that burned for her; a heart beating for her

Jasmine surrounds me - betray my sanity; intoxicating

Whispering words I never meant to say - desperation breaking down my walls

"I love you" from lips that had waited centuries for her taste


Warmth beneath my shaking, calloused hands

Sweet breath against my neck; shivers of desire stop my heart

Tears fall onto my bare skin, setting aflame my already burning skin -extinguish my inner consuming flames

I live; live for her as she now lives for me

Eyes of forest moss stare at me; into me, deeper than I could ever know

Knowing the words that whispered her into life


So much time wasted; lives taken

Never again leaving the side of the true living; deity of my heart

Fingers of such delicate features trace the lines of my soul

She leans in; midnight silk filled with stars

Brushing against my face; I feel for now I live

Lips of jasmine and cherry blossoms meet mine of spring rain and fire

Mixing - colliding - to create a sky of dew petals and blazing suns

She is my now and forever

She is mine; my Love

She is my Kagome.