End the Beginning

Lost time is ringing.
My ears are singing.
My heart is clinging.
If it won't stop beating.

I hear a crash.
My decision, too brash?
My still-beating heart will smash.
But not for very long.

My sister yell.
A soft, tinkling bell.
My fears never to quell.
I gripped the jewel.

I feel it in my hand.
The evil and power so grand.
My mouth dry as sand.
I instruct her.

Let me burn.
And the jewel in turn.
My life wavering like a fern.
Bent by wind.

Breath stolen from my throat.
Well, InuYasha, you got my goat.
But the one thing we all must note:
I think I might have loved him.