Disclaimers: My inspiration for this poem came from reading chapter three of Shouko's untitled Slayers fic. So she (I believe to be female) inspired the italicized lines and many of the imagery work; a very saddening but beautifully portrayed stories of loss that could have been in the Slayers universe. Thank you very much Shouko for allowing me to use your story as a basis for this poem.

Lost Legend

She left me at Midsummer.

She left me at Midsummer

And now I have grown old.

He was wont to say when they came.

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He wonders about realizations

If the sun will ever end

Licks of flames caressing the darkness

Her touch still brings him to shudder

Shadows of his memory in vain

For she bleed long ago through

Staining the brightness

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Tales of great deeds were spoken

Legends that lived as the hero transpired

Reality to sink into the crimsom of her eyes

Heroines who set the world on fire

Still laughing they walk among the living

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His fingers have clutched the cane tighter still

Walking as one with a broken spirit

Too lost to surmiss into a quick death

Ravaged by the winter and spring

Reveries that carry his heart

If his prayers could get him there

He'd never let her go again

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Wisp of the wind as strangers gather

Away they go unnoticed

Humbled into the submission and recession

Sorrow of brave men surviving, living on

Comprehension of not understanding his pain

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Secrets that die without an unleashing

Trembling in the wake of not telling her

Chasing those lost who never glanced back

Her voice bringing disaster, she could do anything

She would end it all, sacrifice it all

Promises he could not keep

She would end it all, sacrifice it all to save him

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Sunlight in his dreams glinting

He can't see it's so bright

Shoulders heavy trying to make it out

Listening to echoes fading forever ago

The most prized possession

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She left me at Midsummer.

She left me at Midsummer

And now I have grown old.

He was wont to say when they came.

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They say legends never die.