Shadow Games

(Poetic representation of a scene from Yuugiou by Kazuki Takahashi)

Souls are bound to another realm

A boy mourns their loss

Dark beings from two artifacts emerge

The boy unites with one

The second drives a man insane

His wife, his love… ripped from him by the evil eye

The eye that contains the darkness, the evil

The boy and his shadow challenge the man to a duel

Stakes?  Souls of the trapped

If the boy loses, his own soul is forfeit

If the boy loses, his shadow becomes one with the evil.

The dark man hides behind his youth…

Hides within false happiness

The Shadow destroys the evil's façade.

The duelists are drawn into the land of shadow and darkness.

The young boy falters; his shadow saves him from this realm.

The man hides once more, but behind a monstrosity.

Shadow prevails against the monster.

The evil is vanquished,

The souls are released,

The boy and his shadow have prevailed.

The evil eye?

No one knows…

No one… save for a third darkness…