Author's Note: This poem is very brief and it isn't my best, but I thought I'd put it up anyway. This is about how part of Zero is vulnerable and breaking when he puts on façade, and how although he has promised to himself to hunt down all the purebloods, including Yuuki, he wants her to love him.
A Small Voice
My heart, shattered ice, I cannot feel no more
Long I was lost and now am I still -
with no whisper of your lips or rustle of your hair
but with the lingering footprints you left behind,
forever imprinted on my heart and on my mind
melting that gasping snow.
I am doomed a hopeless, wandering soul,
grasping onto a sharpened knife of purpose
that keeps you far at bay, yet –
Save me.
Break through the misty shroud of a shield
I breathed to close my pained eyes.
You have scarred me gently but deeply,
never allowing me to rest.
Hold me closely and make me feel human once again,
instead of the villain, the beast, the lie that I am.
Take off the blindfold, the fairy tale that fools you.
How can I hope when it has always been written?
Nevertheless – I do.
The princess and the prince bound by the throat
while I lay in frozen, burning shackles.
See me. Gaze into my soul. See what I cannot.
Find me in that place that cannot be found.
Reach the impossible and shed your light
in that suffocating, everlasting darkness.
The 'me' clutches at the flame you hold
in your beautiful eyes, your soul.
Please don't give up on me.
Because if you do,
This world will be an empty abyss,
for me to forever roam.