A/N: Written for the 100_poems challenge on livejournal, poem 79/100 and day 26.


Character Poems: the Chosen through Time
29. Fujieda Yoshino

Her sisters always cast a shadow
as they ran ahead
and she was stuck behind.

She got too many shakes of the head.

She wasn't good enough; even far later
when she was older, away from those shadows
and in the light

She was overcome by others,
younger, surer,

And she continued to be
until she could truly believe
in the strengths she knew
she possessed.

It was easier said than done

But the change was remarkable
once she did.