None So Empty
Dark_One Shadowphyre
(A/N: This is an Animorph's poem. I know the title suggests Rachel, but this is actually Cassie's POV. It's very dark and extremely depressing, not really what you'd normally find in a Cassie fic. I have to admit it scared me when I looked back at it and thought, "I wrote this?" Respectfully submitted, Dark_One Shadowphyre. Enjoy.)
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I sit and stare
At white walls, bare and clean.
There is not a sound.
No one is here.
I can hear my breath,
Loud in this silent, barren room.
There is nothing here.
No table,
Nor a chair,
Not even a door.
Where am I?
What is this strange and silent room?
Where is Jake?
And Rachel?
Tobias?
Marco?
Ax?
I look for them -
They are not there.
Have they been killed?
Is there some vile creature
Gloating over their bodies,
Reveling in their deaths?
Am I alone?
The walls are closing in.
I feel trapped.
Trapped!
I'm a prisoner!
And soon,
The walls will crush me.
It doesn't matter.
Without my friends to help me through,
I'm nothing.
Only a shell of the girl I was.
Jake...
I never told you that I loved you.
Now it is too late.
I can't feel...anything.
Not joy, happiness, sorrow,
Not even the fear that haunted us all
For three damn years!
Nothing.
The press of the walls is smothering me,
Killing what little will I had left.
Tobias...
Is this how you felt?
Is this what it was like for you,
Trapped in that cage
As you slowly met your end?
A broken, hawk-shaped shell?
Now I, too, am only a shell.
A body without a spirit.
I lost that when I lost my hope.
When I forgot how to feel.
Marco...
I miss your humor.
Perhaps if you were here,
This would not be so hard.
If I could only laugh,
Perhaps I would wake up
To find this all a dream
And all of you would be there,
Waiting for me.
Ax...
You were always strange to me.
But now, I wish for even your presence,
Your cool,
Sharp,
Tail blade
To speed me to my end.
There is no blood.
But I know that I am dying.
Oh, Rachel...
I long for your strength
In this darkest hour.
But you are gone.
They say,
"None are so empty as those
Who are full of themselves."
For you, that was true.
I know your pride
Was your downfall in the end.
But I have found a new truth.
For I know now that there's
None so empty as
She who has lost all hope.
As have I...
So say...
Goodbye...