A/N: This collection contains 20 uncorrelated freeverse poetry for several different challenges based on the Birthday manga

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Candles on a Birthday Cake
a collection of poems

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Character(s): Makoto Kurosawa, Takashi Koyama (narrator)
Challenge(s): Mega Prompts Challenge (Anime and Manga Fanfiction Challenges), writing prompts #61 – dirge.

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those words of goodbye that never finish being said

You tried to say goodbye, but still
the hole you left behind was deep:
those unspoken words crying
like the cloudy songs
of the sky above, the sun lying in wait
for the morrow, where happier hearts will smile
towards it

But today, it leaves us with the sky a grey
to mourn for this loss: this tragedy
we could not avoid.