This is just a poem I wrote when I couldn't sleep.
~*~
Angel of Light
I started to walk down the glass steps
And I thought
Exactly what for have I fought?
Freedom?
Peace?
The horrible pain inside me that I've wanted to ease?
I always do this to myself as I walk
Or else, to myself I start to talk
Of nonsense.
I came upon the altar on which I must pray.
I must kneel here now and start to say
Those special words mother sang to me.
She told me to remember them
That they would be my destiny.
I heard the words of the abomination Jenova.
"You are too late Cetra
I have already won".
I knew right then she would use her son
To stop me.
I ended my prayer and fell to sleep.
I knew when Cloud came
Me from danger he would surely keep.
I sensed Cloud was there.
He softly whispered my name.
His tender, loving voice
Was always the same
When he spoke to me.
I thought I was safe.
I thought I was free.
But the One Winged Angel came down
And plunged his sword of burning hatred into me.
I looked into his eyes
And I could see
Jenova's eyes
Leering back at me.
By then the pain was too much to bear.
Of course Jenova will kill me
Without a single care.
To Sephiroth I whispered
" I forgive you
But not the creature you once preferred
Over your true mother".
I saw a tear form in his eye.
But Jenova didn't let it fall
For behind Jenova's evil will
The true Sephiroth would call
For freedom.
Cloud gently caught me.
I was mortally wounded
As he could see.
He silently whispered "No"
As his first tear fell onto me.
I looked at him
With a look full of hope
And a dream that could never be.
But no.
I was wrong.
Through death
If he does remember me.
That's when
That one beautiful dream
Could become a true reality.
"Remember", I said with my last living breath
"What I said in the forest back then.
I shall return to you my dear Cloud
When this quest for freedom is at its end".
With that
I blacked out.
My spirit rose up
And I watched what would happen next.
Sephiroth and Cloud fighting verbally.
Clouds anger was at it's best.
As he spoke those heartfelt words
A tear came to my eye.
He finished what he had to say
And sadly I started to cry.
Those words about me.
Were they actually true?
Would I never come back to life?
Would I never laugh, smile or get angry again?
Would I never become Aeris Strife?
But there was Tifa.
Another like me
Who was enchanted by this man.
But there is no one, you see
Who has ever loved him more than me.
More than this very ancient land.
Jenova called him a puppet
And ran.
But not before leaving
A monster at hand.
Vincent and Nanaki suddenly came by.
To deal with the monster Jenova left behind.
Cloud then rushed to my lifeless body's side
And left Vincent and Nanaki to make the monster die.
I went to Cloud
And to my surprise
He wept sadly over my body.
His beautiful Mako eyes
Filled with tears just for me.
And I too wept quietly.
But then I realized
That I wasn't truly gone.
I will always be with him.
Always by his side.
And one day
I will be revived
And spend the rest of my true life with him.
The monster was dead.
Everyone was standing over me.
I saw a tear in Nanaki's eye
And I thought I heard Vincent sigh.
But no one spoke for minutes at a time.
I wanted to yell.
I wanted to scream.
I'm right here!
Is this merely a horrid dream?
Nanaki tuned to the steps
And started to run.
I knew he was thinking
Of all the fun
We had together.
Then at the top
Of the steps he did stop
To give one last saddening howl
To the heavens asking why.
And he sat there for a moment
As if waiting for an answer from the sky.
Vincent soon followed
After hearing those cries.
I could see tears flowing
From those suffering crimson eyes.
As he walked up the stairs
I could hear him say
His final good-bye to me
In a very heartbroken way.
Now it was just Cloud.
With my spirit silent behind him
He picked me up and walked toward the lake
A good resting place for me
He thought
That's what this would make.
He placed me in the water
And closed his eyes.
He saw the promises he made to me
All turn into lies.
A world without me
Is what he tried to see.
But it was impossible.
To him
A life without me meant
A life without happiness.
A life without hope.
A life without love.
He tried thinking of suicide.
But then I know that he would find
That I would never approve of it
So he would never do it.
That is when he opened his eyes
And he looked upon me.
That is when I realized
That he actually loved me.
He kissed me softly on the lips
And stroked my hair lovingly.
I wanted to kiss him back
And say to him longingly
"I am still with you Cloud Strife
And I always will be!"
And like he heard me
A smile appeared on his face.
And he softly whispered back to me.
"I, Cloud Strife
Will avenge you my dear angel of light.
Versus Jenova I shall fight.
And when I win
I will find
The one true way
To bring you back to life".
And with that
Of me he let go
And as I slowly descended the icy waters below
I saw crystalline tears run down his face again.
But this time
They were tears of hope.
Hope of finding me again.
I know he could bring me back
Because the powers of love he did not lack.
The power of love is the one true key
That is what he will soon see.
I watched as my body disappeared below.
I looked behind me and my back started to show
Wings?
Am I seeing right?
Am I becoming a dove that will one day take flight?
No.
I am becoming what he needs me to be.
His protector from evil.
His bringer of might.
His healer of wounds.
His Guardian Angel of Light.
~*~
Heheheh, long enough?
Yunalesca Strife ^_^