--This is another Vincent Valentine poem-ish thing...written while wandering aimlessly around the crypt in Shin-Ra Mansion. Lined With Red, the second part, was written then; the first seven lines and random interruptions marked with ~ ~ (called Never Sleep, for some reason ^_~*) I just came up with now...and it seems as if the main poem would signify Vincent's outward calmness, but the lines of Never Sleep indicate Chaos, just under the surface. Take it as you will. I'm not here to dictate your opinions. ^_^ Well, hope you enjoy it...--

~Never Sleep; Lined With Red~

Whispering into the night, I realize
The implications of all these things I've seen.
Hurt me, if you feel you need to,
Break me, if it will make you happy,
But whatever you do,
Don't leave me here to kill myself;
Beat myself up over you...

Sleeping in a world lined with red
So red as blood
Enveloped in the nightmare images
That I myself have brought to pass

~If I could just die, it'd end the pain, but...~

Don't cry for me, no.
Let me lament my pain within this lonely world
Lined with red

~...I'm not worthy to end my own pain...~

Leave me be; go your own way--
You could never understand
When all I see is red as blood,
My world lined with red

~Driving me mad, killing me, killing me...~

I am alone...I want it that way.

~...it's all for the best in the end...~

I've been scarred much more deeply than you'll ever know

~You shouldn't have to understand me...~

Let me sleep in my world lined with red--

~Leave me...~

And maybe the pain will fade, somehow.