A/N:  Was written at 4am… so don't hurt me if it's THAT bad.  It's Kurama… to Kuronue, looking back after he died.  I really stink at descriptions and summaries, but you'll get the point of the poem while READING it, so how about going and doing that now?  Cool.

Disclaimer:  I own nothing.  Wow, that's depressing… I think I'll write an angsty poem, I'm so depressed.  Look… here's one now…

Daerín*

Shadows used to comfort me, knowing someone had to cause them

Now the only ones I see are an empty darkness that covers my being.

It was perfection, you and I, partners and friends

Doing what we knew and loved, doing it well to the end.

Companionship in a lonely world, you meant everything to me

Yet you asked of me what I could not do, that last day of life.

So many memories were built in time with you

They're a part of me, a piece of my heart that I cannot let go.

Some of me screams inside to follow orders and forget

Though the rest knows better, and holds on stronger yet.

Shadows wend inside my mind, empty and incomplete

As a shadow's nothing but darkness, without a light's simple feat.

Yes, darkness, my friend; that is with what I have been left

Without you here at my side, I am nothing save bereft.

No forgotten memories, yet those that stay cannot satisfy

Remembrances fail to conjure even a specter of a past life.

I recall your final words to me, "forget about me, run!" you said…

Well, Kuronue, my partner, friend; run I did, but I shall never forget.

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A/N:  There… Review, please?  If anyone has any characters or feelings they think I should write about, let me know!  I'm looking for new material for poems; so if you like these, tell me something.  ^__~

-Draith

*Daerín is Elvish, and roughly means, "Shadow Remembrance"