Another Seto poem! Yes, he's just such a source of angst and hurt, I can't help but write sad poetry about him. I'm sure plenty of people have manipulated this scene already, but I never seem to have original ideas. Please tell me what you think.
DecisionStanding on the stone,
the cold, hard stone,
the wind whips my coat,
burns against my eyes.
Before me, a hundred thousand
floating furballs.
Beside me, the dragon,
the Ultimate Dragon
blue and silver and white.
Three shining heads
rise against the sky,
snarling in my fury,
helpless in my rage.
Behind his furballs,
the smirking boy
holds up a card between his fingers
laughing in our helplessness,
mocking our rage
Oh, you are so clever,
So efficient and quick.
"The Ultimate defense!"
You cry in your triumph.
The wind is harder
than the cold stone beneath me.
But you have no card strong enough
to win this duel.
Nothing can hurt my great, shining beast.
Your violet eyes are gaudy and false.
You draw a card and laugh again.
Oh, little Yugi, so lucky and clever…
I can't believe what you have done!
The skeleton monster charges my dragon
burning it up, blossoming with corruption
eating away at the core of my monster
like a plague
like an evil sickness
rapidly rotting my shining, silver beast
Another blast from the dragon
fills the world with blue light
but the furballs reproduce
faster than bacteria
faster than a virus subduing life.
Nothing can stop it
Falling into a mindless panic,
a helpless rage…
I hate you, Yugi.
I hate your self-righteous quest.
Save your grandpa?
What about Mokuba, Yugi?
You think your feeble old man
is more important than my brother?
Who decides life and death?Who gives you the right to call me
heartless and cold
while you destroy the only chance I have
to save my little brother?
Clenching my body,
I watch them multiply
while my dragon melts
like ice in the sun.
Once again, failing
Once again, powerless.
Helpless rage.
Mokuba…
imprisoned, alone
soulless, empty…
What have I done for this?
Why does this happen?
Once again, trapped.
Once again, losing.
"Where are you, big brother?"
his small voice cries.
The furballs surround me,
suffocating and foolish,
cooing endlessly
while my dragon drips away,
bit by bit.
Helpless rage.
Now everything around me is melting,
rotting and stinking.
Decaying before my eyes.
I am melting inside,
weak and horrid.
My brother drowns quickly
in the slippery muck,
flailing violently, screaming my name.
I watch him with empty eyes,
paralyzed with morbid fascination.
Why can't I save him?
What have I done for this?
What has he done for this?
Out of me runs
a tall, young boy,
trying to reach my brother,
running in vain.
Mokuba is gone
because of my failure.
"You're rotten to the core, Seto!"
he shouts in my face,
clenching his hands,
shaking with grief.
I am decaying so fast now,
I can hardly think,
or feel any pain.
There is nothing inside me
but weakness and corruption
and now it flows out,
leaving emptiness behind.
The tall boy looks at me
as I sink into the ooze,
angry and hurting,
forever alone,
his clear blue eyes drowning
in a helpless rage.
Unexpectedly… the world clears away againand I stand numb with shock.
Yugi glares impatiently
His friends babble about my weakness,
gawking like people at a zoo.
Yugi rubs a thumb over his next card
and watches me confidently.
I find myself somewhere, my cold, hard self.
I find a choice somewhere, a cold, hard choice.
How much will you risk, Yugi?
How far will you go?
I've already lost everything.
There is nothing holding me back.
Somewhere inside me, the tall boy smiles.
The stone is very hard, but the wind is harder
Step back, step back, step back.
The wind is fire in my eyes.
Yugi stares at me in disbelief
as I stand on the edge of everything.
Who decides life and death?The difference between us is glaring.
Yet, in a way,
we both want the same thing.
How much will you risk, for it Yugi?
How far do you dare to go?
Somewhere inside me, the blue-eyed boy laughs