Hello! :D

I'm here with yet another poem... this one had been in my mind for a while, but it just refused to come out the way I wanted: I kept writing the first few lines but they didn't feel right, none of them rubbed me the right way...

I think this version is as good as it was going to be and, even though I wanted it to be longer, I decided not to trust my luck... if I tried to continue this poem, I might have screwed it up and that would have been a pity really... :P

Well... this one is in yet another 'uncommun' POV: it's Minato's, 'cause after a poem from a mom's point of view, I wanted one from a father's eyes . near the end, is mentioned also Kushina (who's already dead whae Minato speaks) and the "you" is clearly referred to Naruto... a baby Naruto, because the whole poem is set just before Kyuubi's attack...

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I think that's all... Read&Review! :D

- 26 -

Day Of Birth, Day Of Death

All is quiet, inside this room...
the silence pins where I stand:
it isn't a comfortable one,
but is scary and terrible;
the clock alone breaks this stillness.

My skin ripples with cold;
my body shakes slightly;
my heart is heavy...

I look out the window, yet again:
against the dark night sky, raising amounts of orange...
it's not the sun's light, though, as much as I wish it to be.
Something else is the source of that glow;
a beast as old as time itself is coming, coming our way.

Minutes. Mere minutes away, is our fate waiting...
everyone's life in my hands, everyone trusting me-
they'll fight, risking everything they have...

I know I have to go,
I can't let them all die;
the noise from outside is becoming unbearable: they're calling for me.
My time is drawing to an end-
I'll do what is needed, no matter how hard it'll be.

My body seem to know it- what my destiny is;
my heart beats fast, soon it won't be possible anymore...
I'm strangely calm, though...

I have just one thing I'll regret, or maybe two:
I won't be there through hard times,
I won't be there when you'll become a man...
I know you'll archive your every dream-
and I'm sorry, so very sorry, for what I'm about to do...

I hope you won't hate me for this;
this village, that I love more that my life- I leave it in your hands:
I trust you to protect it with your soul...

Your mother, oh your mother...
she was beautiful and strong, she wanted you so much,
yet she left us before all this started-
she never saw you...
she never held you to her chest...

For all things I wish I could change, this is the most important;
I held you near, I still do, despite the tears threatening to fall-
you are one of the best things that ever happened to me.

I head out the door to meet my fate, with you in my arms,
and I smile sadly as you sleep peacefully...
I hug you tight and close my eyes, holding the feeling deep in my being 'cause,
through it all, I know you'll never remember any of this-
the feel of your tiny body will encourage me to meet the end...

I hope you liked it! :D

I think it's really sad that Naruto won't ever remember his father's touch, but knowing that he doesn't even know who is father (and mother, too) is, is even sadder...

Well, ja ne!