*Disclaimer: Standard stuff. I don't own any of Squaresoft, don't think I do.*

It all just seemed to slip away

when the world went slippery

and ran, like water on paint,

like a mirage of the road ahead,

like petals in the wind.

It was not my trigger,

not your fists,

not her whip,

that brought this fall.

It was all nothing more

than a fantasy

She would never come back.

She left us all, left me,

and wouldn't look back.

I couldn't do anything.

I cried.

I ran.

I cried while I ran,

screaming the name, her name.

She would never come back

Exhausted, weary, empty.

Are all the days to come

empty like this one, without her?

I slept and dreamt.

I was far from here.

Matron was big,

Sis was pretty,

Irvy was strong,

Zell was brave,

Selphie was giggly,

Quisty was smart.

Seifer was bad,

but never bad enough to be evil.

And Mom and Dad were there,

and I hated them, because they loved me

too late.

When time got slippery,

like tall grass in morning,

I tossed and turned.

"No, I don't want to go.

This is my home now."

But I have no home.

My girlfriend said my name,

and shouted my name

and plead my name

and cried my name

and when I opened my eyes

nothing had changed.

I had been playing in my mind

in that little garden where I'm boss and king.

I had been playing in my mind

with ifs and whens and what could bes

I had been playing in my mind

a fantasy that would never be real.

I'm all alone.

Again.

Still.

Forever.