Seven Songs of the Keybearer
Forest Glenn '03
Rated PG for uh... theme?
a bunch of poems about one key bearer from the other
disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts or any associated charas.
I. a lesson in the warm and soft
It is warm and soft and cloudy
And I am sitting on the front step of the house of a girl
I just met her here in the warm and soft
She said her name and I forgot
The wind whistles
But quietly, as though it is afraid
I believe that peaceful tranquillity exists here
But maybe it's just a trick of the utter silence
The girl has returned with a glass of lemonade
It is the same pink as the worn shirt she gave me to wear
She is telling me a story that I listen to with one ear
About a man and a race of gold and lead
Ugly leaden bodies but perfect hearts of gold
He wasn't satisfied
So he tried again and again to make
A more beautiful people
Then one day something went wrong
And when the dust cleared he saw a new race
Those with gold bodies, lead hearts
She takes my empty glass and leans over to whisper
You are special, a beautiful body, a beautiful heart
I have little time to ponder this comment
As she continues on, pointing to the street
They are the solid lead and you are their only hope
She goes inside and I wearily stand
Straighten
Reach for my weapon once again
II. beat of blood
Graceful deadly dance of steel and flesh
And blood that courses angry through fragile veins
To my traitorous heart and back again
Welcome nourishment to my body if not my soul
With each evil that falls vanquished at my feet
I see his face before me in all its expressions
In all its wonder and grace
Does each battle bring me closer or take me
Farther away from where I want to be?
Thwick goes my blade and I am mesmerized by my power
Lost in the beat of my blood
When I am here I am friendless
Hopeless and oh so far from home
But I don't really care any longer
First you feel the pain keenly
And then the pain doesn't bother you nearly so much as it should
And then there is no pain
Only deliverance from reality and
Forgiveness for your sins
I am an unfinished sentence and I am
Looking for the final syllable
The word to complete my thought
A period like a sacred promise
I will never leave you behind again
III. sacred chant
Footsteps echo endlessly in front of me as I
Learn again to feel the pain that is associated with you and
Your name and the way that it makes my heart beat faster
Until my thoughts are drowned out by thoughts of you
You become a sacred chant
I am walking again through
A city of gold and lead that entrances you and traps you
Leaving you no one to blame but yourself
Lights flicker neon and black are the doorways
I pass slowly so they might not see me and gobble me up
The people here are lonely and so very afraid
I am alone enough to feel no fear and that is how I differ
They are black faces and I am colorless because I am so far from
Home
Or you
But those are one and the same
Were you here this would be home
This city of soot and dirt and grime
It lacks the purity of your place of birth
And mine too, I suppose
Though I begin to forget the people and places I left behind
A hunted city quickly replaces all thoughts of calm and love
Love slowly leaves when it is forced to turn to hate
But you I love all the more because
I know now that you are not perfect
IV. eyes close on a fragmented tale of a world without you
I piece back together a fragmented tale
I am hot in pursuit of something
I don't know exactly what.
This is something I know
This is a place I remember
This is where, deep down inside of me
You live.
You are a shadow that eludes my grasp
You are a being that must be loved and hated.
I ask the man before me for
Directions but all he leaves me is more questions
And a promise of even more to come if I should want them
I am too kind and nice and polite to say no
Despite the fact that I am sick and tired of questions
All I want to do is make my way home
My friends have either
Abandoned me or
They have been separated from me
It is a comfort to know that more have been lost through the latter process
But it is still hard to live in a
World without you.
And slowly now
My eyes are closing from lack of sleep
I am floating in a sea of bottles
Messages to be found by the rest of the world
I can't send out my own for the amount found around me
Maybe if I turned over
But now I am asleep and it is too late
V. pillow promises
It is something so natural to lean back
Ever so slightly and then I can see the sky
Blue black like a brand new bruise
Freckled with stars like diamonds and sapphires
Blocked by clouds like pink-orange-sunset pillows
It is peace and tranquillity even here
Even in the midst of a battle I might not be able to win
The moon and the sky look benevolently down upon me
There is a blur rushing by too fast to see
And then it is gone
Shooting stars remind me of the promises I've made
If my life went any faster
I wouldn't have time to make promises at all
And then behind me
That isn't a star
And I am fighting wearily on
Against the ever strengthening ocean tides
VI. fell
Today I woke up from the most disconcerting dream
In which I slowly
Fell
And was not only powerless to stop it
But all my memories
Everything beyond this desolate world
Fell
And I couldn't catch up to them
No matter what I did
Then just as slowly as ever he
Fell
Down beside me
And smiled and reached for my battle worn hand
His eyes wouldn't look at me from behind his hair
But is made little difference to me
His hand was in mine
And slowly
Everything
Fell
Right with the world
May no creation be born of ignorance
He said
And then I
Fell
Back into my bed and woke up feeling sad and afraid
VII. comfort and beauty for a tormented soul
Behind the darkness
You said when I met you today
There, lies the door to the light
And it is very easy to believe you
Though I have wandered here so sad and alone
For so long and a day
And in a day you are here with me again
I suddenly no longer need to move on
All I want is to stay with you forever
You smile at me
I suppose I voiced my last thought aloud
I always did that around you
The smile doesn't mock me though
And you look content
To simply look at me
As though I am some delicacy too beautiful to be eaten
But lusted after anyway and wanted but given up for the
Greater good that you haven't found
Still you know it's there somewheres
There for the asking if you weren't afraid
To ask
I look at you and try my first tentative smile
Has my mouth forgotten how?
What else has it forgotten?
Apparently how to ask
Because all I can do is reach towards you like an infant
You always did understand me so well
As I melt into your arms
Your heartbeat soothes a beaten soul
Forest Glenn '03
Rated PG for uh... theme?
a bunch of poems about one key bearer from the other
disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts or any associated charas.
I. a lesson in the warm and soft
It is warm and soft and cloudy
And I am sitting on the front step of the house of a girl
I just met her here in the warm and soft
She said her name and I forgot
The wind whistles
But quietly, as though it is afraid
I believe that peaceful tranquillity exists here
But maybe it's just a trick of the utter silence
The girl has returned with a glass of lemonade
It is the same pink as the worn shirt she gave me to wear
She is telling me a story that I listen to with one ear
About a man and a race of gold and lead
Ugly leaden bodies but perfect hearts of gold
He wasn't satisfied
So he tried again and again to make
A more beautiful people
Then one day something went wrong
And when the dust cleared he saw a new race
Those with gold bodies, lead hearts
She takes my empty glass and leans over to whisper
You are special, a beautiful body, a beautiful heart
I have little time to ponder this comment
As she continues on, pointing to the street
They are the solid lead and you are their only hope
She goes inside and I wearily stand
Straighten
Reach for my weapon once again
II. beat of blood
Graceful deadly dance of steel and flesh
And blood that courses angry through fragile veins
To my traitorous heart and back again
Welcome nourishment to my body if not my soul
With each evil that falls vanquished at my feet
I see his face before me in all its expressions
In all its wonder and grace
Does each battle bring me closer or take me
Farther away from where I want to be?
Thwick goes my blade and I am mesmerized by my power
Lost in the beat of my blood
When I am here I am friendless
Hopeless and oh so far from home
But I don't really care any longer
First you feel the pain keenly
And then the pain doesn't bother you nearly so much as it should
And then there is no pain
Only deliverance from reality and
Forgiveness for your sins
I am an unfinished sentence and I am
Looking for the final syllable
The word to complete my thought
A period like a sacred promise
I will never leave you behind again
III. sacred chant
Footsteps echo endlessly in front of me as I
Learn again to feel the pain that is associated with you and
Your name and the way that it makes my heart beat faster
Until my thoughts are drowned out by thoughts of you
You become a sacred chant
I am walking again through
A city of gold and lead that entrances you and traps you
Leaving you no one to blame but yourself
Lights flicker neon and black are the doorways
I pass slowly so they might not see me and gobble me up
The people here are lonely and so very afraid
I am alone enough to feel no fear and that is how I differ
They are black faces and I am colorless because I am so far from
Home
Or you
But those are one and the same
Were you here this would be home
This city of soot and dirt and grime
It lacks the purity of your place of birth
And mine too, I suppose
Though I begin to forget the people and places I left behind
A hunted city quickly replaces all thoughts of calm and love
Love slowly leaves when it is forced to turn to hate
But you I love all the more because
I know now that you are not perfect
IV. eyes close on a fragmented tale of a world without you
I piece back together a fragmented tale
I am hot in pursuit of something
I don't know exactly what.
This is something I know
This is a place I remember
This is where, deep down inside of me
You live.
You are a shadow that eludes my grasp
You are a being that must be loved and hated.
I ask the man before me for
Directions but all he leaves me is more questions
And a promise of even more to come if I should want them
I am too kind and nice and polite to say no
Despite the fact that I am sick and tired of questions
All I want to do is make my way home
My friends have either
Abandoned me or
They have been separated from me
It is a comfort to know that more have been lost through the latter process
But it is still hard to live in a
World without you.
And slowly now
My eyes are closing from lack of sleep
I am floating in a sea of bottles
Messages to be found by the rest of the world
I can't send out my own for the amount found around me
Maybe if I turned over
But now I am asleep and it is too late
V. pillow promises
It is something so natural to lean back
Ever so slightly and then I can see the sky
Blue black like a brand new bruise
Freckled with stars like diamonds and sapphires
Blocked by clouds like pink-orange-sunset pillows
It is peace and tranquillity even here
Even in the midst of a battle I might not be able to win
The moon and the sky look benevolently down upon me
There is a blur rushing by too fast to see
And then it is gone
Shooting stars remind me of the promises I've made
If my life went any faster
I wouldn't have time to make promises at all
And then behind me
That isn't a star
And I am fighting wearily on
Against the ever strengthening ocean tides
VI. fell
Today I woke up from the most disconcerting dream
In which I slowly
Fell
And was not only powerless to stop it
But all my memories
Everything beyond this desolate world
Fell
And I couldn't catch up to them
No matter what I did
Then just as slowly as ever he
Fell
Down beside me
And smiled and reached for my battle worn hand
His eyes wouldn't look at me from behind his hair
But is made little difference to me
His hand was in mine
And slowly
Everything
Fell
Right with the world
May no creation be born of ignorance
He said
And then I
Fell
Back into my bed and woke up feeling sad and afraid
VII. comfort and beauty for a tormented soul
Behind the darkness
You said when I met you today
There, lies the door to the light
And it is very easy to believe you
Though I have wandered here so sad and alone
For so long and a day
And in a day you are here with me again
I suddenly no longer need to move on
All I want is to stay with you forever
You smile at me
I suppose I voiced my last thought aloud
I always did that around you
The smile doesn't mock me though
And you look content
To simply look at me
As though I am some delicacy too beautiful to be eaten
But lusted after anyway and wanted but given up for the
Greater good that you haven't found
Still you know it's there somewheres
There for the asking if you weren't afraid
To ask
I look at you and try my first tentative smile
Has my mouth forgotten how?
What else has it forgotten?
Apparently how to ask
Because all I can do is reach towards you like an infant
You always did understand me so well
As I melt into your arms
Your heartbeat soothes a beaten soul