Inu (Dog)

The fourth poem in the "Kibito's Thoughts" series.

By LadyRivka

A/N: Shoonen-ai, of course, and also written in response to the new dubbed epis I got on DVD. I prefer subbed, Kibito doesn't seem like such an idiot in Japanese. And he didn't in the first dubbed part of the Buu saga, but during the Zet Sword epis, I was sooo maaad at the dubbers!- L.R.

I see these mortal eyes upon me

Gazing at me, wanting me to

Grovel at your feet, call you "Master",

Eat table scraps off of the floor like a common dog.

I see these mortal eyes upon me

And I cannot tell them I have emotions,

Feelings, thoughts, dreams, desires.

They do not even consider me sentient,

For I am but a servant.

I see these mortal eyes upon me

Staring at me if I were some sort of animal, rabid, mad.

I fear that they will hunt me down and kill me

Because to them I am less than themselves.

But, turning away from the gaze of mortals

I turn into your eyes, my Kaiooshin-sama,

Your sweet, understanding eyes, ever reassuring,

And I am reminded that I am no dog, nor rabid,

But a perfectly sentient, free being bound

Only by the invisible shackles of our love.

Curses to those who think otherwise!

Perhaps they are the groveling dogs,

Wanting to please a master they know not,

Eternally jealous, foaming mad, at the one who does.

-L.R.