Characters: Gin, Shinji, Ryuuken, Komamura, Hisana
Summary
: Where it all went wrong.
Warnings/Spoilers
: General spoilers
Timeline
: Skips around
Author's Note
: I'm on a poetry kick right now. It probably won't last long. As with The Plum Blossoms Fly at Midnight (which I hope you guys will check out, by the way) I have identified the speakers, but if it is at all unclear, please let me know. Also, today is my one-year anniversary as a member!
Disclaimer
: I don't own Bleach.


In Over My Head

You know, I can still remember
No matter how much you try to forget, I never will
The memories burn me, gall me
While you wash them down with sake

You say I've lost myself, that I'm not the same
But I ask you, if you knew what I know
Would you be able to contain your rage?
I wasn't

I won't say I did it for you
Because I know that will only hurt you
But I don't regret it
Any more than I regret knowing you

.x.X.x.

Pride Go Before a Fall

I knew he was a snake
But I still let him coil around my throat
In light of that
I almost deserved what happened next

It was a matter of pride
I thought I had him down to a science
I never thought he could outwit me
Or trap me like a rat in a fleshy prison

Now, he's living on top
While I and others fight to survive
And wonder what could have been
If my pride hadn't got in the way

.x.X.x.

Deadbeat Dad

Your silences are long and harsh
You have turned away from me,
Your anger and pain poisoning the air around us
And I wonder if I could have done anything to prevent this

We are broken in our own ways
I have hurt you, but you hurt me as well
And we neither forgive nor forget
In this war between blood

I have never really seen you
I've wanted to, but always
My eyes go through you or past you
Perhaps afraid of what I will find written on your face

.x.X.x.

No More Justice

No one knows you as I do
At least, that is what I always said
My heart full of pride and love
And faith in my strong, steady friend

But I was wrong, I suppose
I never saw,
How that heart full of the love for justice
Turn to hate for all that which is good

Now, you scream and shout
Your voice full of hate
And your soul thirsting for revenge
I really never knew you at all

.x.X.x.

Sweet Baby Sister

I could hear you crying
As I fled from your sight
I never looked back
And I never saw you again

I did wonder, though
How would you survive
Without my lullabies
Or my meager care?

I still hear you crying
At nights when sleep flees from me
And I will never forget you
My sweet, baby sister