A/N: I wrote this around a year ago on a whim. After looking back at it I decided I actually kind of liked it, even if it's way too strange (make sense out of that one..)

Tales of the Abyss is the property of Namco Bandai, not me.


Who are they to say?-

They poke, they jab,

With names like 'Necromancer.'

They see what I do,

But they fear it,

As they do not understand.

What is the difference

Between mistakes

And murder?- Both are the same.

Death's cold chill has set.

My heart did split.

I take care so no one knows.

I feign being cold,

Little they know.

Reaffirm; 'never again.'

Still they hit sore spots.

'Sociopath',

'Devil child'-even then.

But they were not there,

They were not scared,

Nor had they the power I had.

Yet I did fail,

And she did die;

A casualty of my choice.

I, racked with regret

Went wrong, within

And set off to deny death.

With Saphir I worked

In denial,

To bring our professor back.

Countless failures came,

And there I lay

resigned to throw out my life.

And so I would have,

Had Pheony

Not steered me from this dark path.

Now I'm left to live,

To forever

Go on with the guilt I hold.

Never, dear Gelda

May my soul rest

Without forgiveness from you.

It all comes full circle,

I see too late

That I am the one to blame,

For much more to come,

Than was back then;

The means of the world's end.

Fomicry I,

The father am,

And cannot undo time.

Watch me Nebilim

From where you lay,

And I swear I will set right

The evil I unleashed.

The suffering,

I am but too late to fix.

For who would have thought

My heart would thaw,

To one I once held disdain?

The replica Luke-

Light to my dark,

To whom I told my tale.

But soon he too, will

Vanish and die;

One more fault of my design.

It had been my tongue

I could not bite;

My logic based facts I gave-

Qualities at length

Once made me great;

Fearless ambition and wit,

Have now brought me shame.

Nothing but pain-

Dagger to my un-numbed heart.

Who are they to say

As if they know,

The truth of my callous ways?