A/N: This collection contains uncorrelated poetry (mostly freeverse, but some form thrown in) for several different challenges (and possibly competitions too). This collection will contain 30 poems spread across the different Kingdom Hearts games.
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Kingdoms in the Sky
a collection of poems
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Character(s): Riku
Game: Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
Challenge(s): Freeverse Poetry Boot Camp (Magical Girls and Boys Challenge Forum), prompt #001 – return
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Coming Out of Darkness
He'd never expected to come out of the darkness
once he'd sunk so deeply into it, lost the light
but somehow he struggled out, rescue rope
twinned around his waist
Except it wasn't that: he was still in the darkness,
still knee-deep and the light was still
beyond reach, even though it reached deep into heart
and struggled with the dark…
His hands still summoned the darkness.
His heart still called it; his body
was still wrapped in it.
He hadn't come out after all; if he had,
he'd without a root into the light returned.
But he had a seed anew
to form new, deeper, roots.