Once again, the title has been stolen from Yomi's character song, Sennen no Yami no Hate, End of a Thousand Years of Darkness.

Yuu Yuu Hakusho is not mine, Yomi is not mine, Shura is not mine. I will, however, get around to stealing Yomi's coat in the not-so-distant future. Eventually.


Blood slipping from empty eyes

Like the tears I could never have shed

I still remember the day

When you abandoned your disguise

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The light of the world

And everything in it

Were taken in a moment

By a single slash of a sword

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Fallen from grace

I laid there, face down

My blood tainting the earth red

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My broken body pressed upon the ground

I waited, unmoving

Waiting for you to return

To save me from the dark

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And yet…

You never came back

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In the end I stood once more

And built an empire

Out of the torn wastes of a desert

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A millennia has passed

Both of us have changed

From the people we once were

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My fighting spirit was broken

Yours set aside

Both of us waiting

But never truly knowing for what

Until the day I called you to return

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Our positions reversed

It seemed like it would stay that way

Until the day the darkness shattered

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My warrior's pride once more rekindled

I fought

Not for a nation

Not for a leader

But for the self I had thought

Had disappeared into the shadows of passing time

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Then, in the darkest hour

When hope seemed forever lost

The cry of a child calling for his father

Kept me on my feet

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Feet that

In the end

Guided me into a new era

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An era in which

Although blind

I can still see the rays of the sun

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An era in which

Although weak

I believe I can become strong again


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