Dear Santa,
It seems a bit strange writing, as if you're alive. I don't believe that you are, such silly nonesense for a seventeen year old to try, but she makes me feel that the impossible is real. So here goes my shot at a Santa letter, something that I never did as a child but I'm doing now:
Dear Santa
What I'd like this year
It isn't something that you can wrap up in a box
And only two people have tried to give it so far
Strength
Now I don't expect to have a way out of the curse
I've asked for that too many times
But I'd like strength
To keep myself from Akito
To show what I truly am
I don't possess that courage
It's as true as my Zodiac says it
I'm more of a mouse than of a man
But I'd like to have the strength to do what I've wanted
The strength to tell my mother to stop organising my life
She's never cared about me
So I won't give her the power
I want to be able to choose my own life
Not be under the ladies beck and call
To wear the clothes I want, to be the person I am
Do they not understand that
I'd like the strength to say the things I said at the beginning
To run away from this family
To make my own destiny
Rather than being around Kyo the whole time
I don't possess strength now
The strength that Tohru Honda finds in me
But I'm trying
I'm trying to gain my own strength
I just might not be quite there yet
I know that I will never have the strength of others
I am hiding
Trying to get away from Akito
If I had the strength I wouldn't be her pet
So please
If a seventeen year old boy
Dealing with the pressures of being in high school
Can ask you anything
It's this
For a small bit of strength
So my future isn't descided without me
So that I won't lose hope
That is all that I ask for this year
Yuki Sohma