A/N:  A requested poem… Keiko's thoughts to/about Yuusuke while he was dead.  Sorry, Portal-girl, I don't really like this poem, though the idea was good.  I'll have to try again later.  Oh well, read this anyway?

Now That You're Gone

You never gave yourself the chance to make it in this world

You never even seemed to care how much you would be worth.

I guess you thought that no one else gave any care for you

But how could you even for one second believe that to be true?

No matter what she said or did, your mother loved you deeply.

If you could only see the pain she's in, her anguished cries and weeping.

That boy you fought with cares a lot about you too you know

With his painful rage no one could doubt that he's taken a blow.

Even those you've never thought of as friends throughout your life

So many now feel pain for you; you can't tell me that's a lie.

Teachers too, not all against you, mourn still what could have been

A wasted life done nothing with, they wish they'd told you then.

Sadly you only hear all of this now too late

Had we told you and you'd known, could we have saved you from your fate?

So many questions, left unanswered, so many things I should have said

The world wasn't such a bad place; wish I'd gotten that through your head.

The only one who didn't care the least about your well being

Was yourself and in the end that's what you're seeing.

I know you're in heaven now, looking down here from above

But tell me why you had to go so far away, just to know you were loved?

There's one I haven't mentioned yet, now, before my message fades…

I love you, Yuusuke, and though you're gone, I'll still love you all my days.

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A/N:  There it is, see?  That's why I don't like it… I'm sure you have the same opinion. * sigh*  Review?  Let me know what went wrong, I still can't pinpoint it…

-Draith