Candles on a Birthday Cake

by reminiscent-afterthought

[Birthday] There was always a candle that hadn't quite gone out.

14. this is the path you've put me on and I'

A/N: This collection contains 20 uncorrelated freeverse poetry for several different challenges based on the Birthday manga

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Candles on a Birthday Cake
a collection of poems

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Character(s): Makoto Kurosawa, Takashi Koyama
Challenge(s): The Scrabble Challenge, prompt: rein ; Mega Prompts Challenge, word prompts #021 – ancient

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/14/

this is the path you've put me on and I'll stay on it this time

This is the path you've put me on
and I'll stay on it this time.

I know I've wandered off before,
but I definitely won't this time.

You pulled me back from the edge
I'd failed to cross once and was
heading for again.

You showed this old worn out me
something worth trying
again.

And then you went and died
instead of me, and I couldn't do
a thing

And I still can't

But I'll stay on this path you've put me on
so one day I can.