Nothing's Heart.
By:Etern
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts.
Sometimes he forgets that the heart does not hold all the answers.
Sometimes, he forgets that it can hold nothing at all.
A beating organ, swayed this way and that on the faintest breeze, in the intentions buried deep in words.
Listen to the hum of those words; listen to the temptations.
And then maybe someday it will make sense.
All of his experiments are failures—were they even experiments to begin with?
Measuring the capacity of a heart, as though it really has one.
As though it isn't limitless, as though it really doesn't just fall off all charts.
Exceeding limits as well as lowering them.
He only wanted to save people, in the beginning. He was only doing what he felt was right. But his heart could not be placed into those he studied, and so he sought more.
Maybe that was it, when he thinks to it. Maybe all along he was just searching for his own heart in those experiments, trying to find some thing that made sense, some reason for him still to have go on.
A fruitless endeavor.
What had he heard, whispered on the heartbeats that float around him in those little tubes, boxed and ready to give out like presents. Like presents. What had he heard?
One who knows nothing can understand nothing.
But what was nothing? A state, a place, an oasis to run too—where did the possibilities end?
As limitless as the heart.
That was why they did not surprise him; that was how he knew that no matter what the Nobodies would exist.
Ah, but of course, of course there is nothing.
He can not understand. The heart is supposed to be vital, strong, the source of all feeling, of all sorrows and joy.
How can nothing feel too? How can nothing feel without a heart?
Poor man, he understands nothing. He does not understand his own life's work. Poor man, he can not see, he can not see that the heart can be twisted, shrunk to the point of destruction. He does not notice the properties of the darkness to conceal anything, and take everything away.
Poor man, he dies without a clue.
He dies without a clue and enters into nothing.
There his heart does lie.