Disclaimer: If I owned FullMetal Alchemist Ed would have stayed in Amestris and I wouldn't need to write this poem.
Distance by KageSakura
Golden orbs, a river
of passion, fury, energy
flowing through.
A whisper,
not whispered, "I have to."
A touch, a smile.
Never had to be so brave
to say
"goodbye."
A brush, a breeze,
as tears dry.
A promise under a false wave:
"See you later." A lie.
A cry, a broken song.
The wind carries it
far and long as it silently echoes:
"Don't go!"
A silhouette in the distance
of a retreating back;
as golden as the sun.
Setting the other way.
A wish. A prayer in a
broken tongue,
"Be safe."
A goal, a reason to turn
and run.
A journey. A gate.
Hope and destiny interlock and break
as a door shuts closed.
"You promised."
No windows. Dark shadows.
Eyes cast downward towards
a wall. Cracked; slipping down
on lost lips the words. "I know."
Far from everything
and yet too close.
"Did you even care?"
A question asked too many times.
Solemn to the last breath.
Across two skies, a letter.
Unsent.
A day. A month. A year.
Far too long.
The world expands beyond comprehension.
A touch that isn't there. A voice you can't hear.
"I miss you"
An invisible smile, on a patient table.
A shadow of nothing and yet everything.
A memory. A melody once forgotten.
"I need you."
And the music burns
in deaf ears.
A star a light
brightening a dim room.
So far away
across the universe.
A message not yet delivered, so rehearsed.
"I'm sorry."
A/N: I'm thinking of writing more poems for all types of elements of the FMA fandom. I suppose you can call this a work in progress though I think it's a pretty good start.
