Kanpai!
Many have wondered
What it is that I keep
In my jug at my side that
I even wear in my sleep
It is sake, yes, sake
There is nothing else that I drink
If I didn't have it
I would go insane, I think
Sake tastes weird
Not bad, just, strange
I should try another variety
It would be good for a change
How else should I describe it?
Well, it's spicy, and yet it's not
Even those who drink it often
Have a hard time describing it, and I cannot
Ah, it's so refreshing
The taste rolling flavourfully
I'm in bliss with every sip
I slip into a state of ecstasy
As I sit here, with a masu
Of this glorious spirit
My thoughts just float away
As a quickly down it
Even so, I drink to my friends
To their lives lost horrifically
So to you, Braska, and Jecht
I drink for you; Kanpai!
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A/N - 9/4/02 - Ok this one turned out different in the end than how I expected it. It's also the third poem in a sequence that I wrote in school. Phew! Three poems having to be re-written…yikes! Anyways, this was first supposed to describe Auron's thoughts of his sake, then I decided to have him toast to his friends and the title change to "Kanpai!" just made me want to put something like that in there. More to come soon, I just need some more ideas for poems! O_o…
Anyway, just as a side note, I have an explanation of what a masu is somewhere in my story. Oh, and if anyone forgot, "Kanpai!" is the Japanese equivalent for "Cheers!"