****SPOILERS FOR THE KYOTO ARC****

A/N:  Omg! I'm so sorry, minna-san! I have been so busy, as you can see by the author's note, but I'm here and updated! Finally…

This is a poem, actually, that I wrote during Spanish class.  The lyrics splattered through it are from different Evanescence songs and were added after I wrote the poem. I was going to post it under a separate fic, but I figured if I added the lyrics in, it would fit into this lil' saga of mine! ^_^

This probably isn't my best work; I'm not that pleased with it. I actually tried to rhyme every other line, for the most part, and I don't really like it that much. It makes it seem like it has a childish beat, in my opinion; kinda like a little happy, carefree thing. However, my dear friend (who inspired me to write "Permanent Ecstasy"), Alexia, said it seemed like I was using a kind of ironic literary tool.  As this poem is about Soujiro, the carefree and childish beat of the poem reflects a bit of his character like we see it on the outside, while the words are a bit angsty and painful, like he is on the inside. Weird, ne? But enough to keep me from destroying the poem. Still, I must admit I couldn't fight the urge to put a few, offbeat lines in there. Hey, I like poetry like that (the timing a bit off)!

Once again, FORGIVE ME FOR NOT UPDATING! bows x_x I hope to write a couple of extra chapters this Thanksgiving break (if the relatives are too demanding for my time ^_^) to make up for it. On to the poem!

WARNING: Angst.

Disclaimer: I would write a fan fiction if I owned the characters and could manipulate the original story line to my every whim. Yep. I would.

I don't own Whisper, Understanding, Lies, Going Under,  or Everybody's Fool, all by Evanescence.

Rating: PG-13

POV: Seta Soujiro

Time Period:  Near the end of the Kyoto arc

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"Just Like You"

A smile, a smirk

To hide the pain

fallen angels at my feet

whispered voices at my ear

Stench of blood

Driving me insane.

But I'll hide the pain

And I won't tell

I can stop the pain if I will it all away

They'll be ignorant of

My personal hell.

if I will it all away

I suffer alone.

can't wash it all away, can't wish it all away

can't cry it all away, can't scratch it all away

And I've lost.

I've lost to Himura

He's becoming the best

In this tangled web

This survival of the fittest.

So I wander.

forsaking all I've fallen for

I rise to meet my end

I wander to find

Truth within myself

blurring and stirring the truth and the lies

so I don't know what's real and what's not

The world I knew

I have now left.

I'm now alone

To wander ten years

I want to learn

How to shed tears.

I want to express

The pain inside

To remove the mask

Behind which I hide.

without the mask where you hide

can't find yourself, lost in your lie

But I can't.

Not yet.

But one day my dreams

They will come true

And I will become

Human, just like you.

but through my tears breaks a blinding light

birthing a dawn to this endless night


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Muse

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