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Kaoru's Perspective:

Poem 4

The Gravity of Love

I love you more then you'll ever know.

I love you more then you'll ever comprehend.

Yet why do you stand before me?

Why do you love someone else?

We have known each our whole lives,

Till the day she came.

You knew my laughs,

You knew my voice,

You knew when I cried,

When I was happy.

But to see that I was not capable of receiving your love in return,

I know I have failed,

I know at heart,

We weren't meant to be.

Maybe someday when I'm gone, you'll think of me.

For now I stand before you,

I told you the truth.

"I love you Kenshin," I said.

"I love you."

The only words that left my lips.

To bare the truth no longer,

Left me feeling desolate.

To know that I love you,

And I always will,

Left nothing to look forward to tomorrow,

Left nothing to look forward to in the future.

Your eyes alone,

Told me we could never be together.

I nodded my head in disbelief,

And felt the tears well up inside,

For there is nothing more left to say.

The truth was out,

My words left no difference.

The tension between us was now gone.

I could no longer look at you straight in the eyes.

No longer can I stay around,

For I might break down,

Because of you.

I walked outside of my home,

And left you there to think.

I passed by my favorite place where I use to think of you all the time,

My memories came and went,

For you could no longer remain in my heart.

It was my fault from the beginning,

As it always was.

Between you and me,

We could no longer be,

Between our friendship sake,

It was never meant to be.

But it was not my fault in a way,

For love just happened,

Just like it never fades away.

When I fell for you,

You fell for her.

It was not our fault for loving other people so.

It was faith's fault,

For never giving people what they expect.

It was destiny's fault,

For choosing our paths.

Maybe it was Kami-sama's fault,

For making us love.

Yet love itself was invincible,

It was immortal, then mortal.

Love itself is a strong emotion,

That could not be described in words.

It makes, then breaks us.

It plays with us, then drive us insane.

We are figments to this emotion so called love.

We are experiments to such a pain.

Yet is love a sin?

To love someone who's been there for me, is it a sin?

For me to love you, was it a committed sin upon my actions?

I fell to heap on the floor,

Tears spilling fast from my eyes,

Each tear reminded me of the raindrops,

For I can no longer cry,

My heart soared,

Above it,

My head was driven to insanity.

My breathing quickened,

I thought at that moment I was going to die.

Never did I notice you were behind me,

After all this time,

You followed me.

You wrapped your arms around me,

And let me cry until my tears ran dry,

Until my breathing became normal,

Until my mind became me again.

"Why did I have to love you?" I cried

"Why?"

You only replied.

"I'm sorry that I was not able to return your love.

You deserve someone better than me.

But you know this does not change a thing between you and me?"

All I could do was nod my head,

For there were no more words left to say.

I understood what you meant,

After knowing how much I loved you so,

You still kept your heart to Tomoe.

You were no longer mine,

No longer considered my best friend.

For you, things never changed,

Butfor me, they already did.

The end of the school year came,

And graduation was here.

Everyone were cheerful as they always were,

Except for me.

It was the only day I looked forward to,

For after this I would never see you again.

I watched you from where I stood,

You held your sweet Tomoe close to you,

And here I was standing all alone,

Like there no one here in my world.

You don't see,

What I could see,

You'll always be in my heart,

Till the day I die,

For my love is true,

Will it always be pure to you.

From this day,

I will give you up,

Because she can give you something that I couldn't give you.

From this day,

I will move on,

But the memory of you will linger in mysoul always.

After that day of my confession,

You said things never changed.

But as times passes, things change.

For you and Tomoe,

Time never changed things for you,

It did not matter.

Between you and I, things changed.

You no longer spoke to me about her.

You did so, as not to break my heart.

That was only the first step.

Eventually you never spoke to me about what you felt,

You found someone else to spend all your time with,

And you left me in the cold.

However, every single moment that I spent with you,

I did not regret it.

People may call me selfish,

But to tell the truth it was what kept me living.

I looked one last time at our school,

At my school.

Life was moving forward,

And the path continued on for me.

The only difference,

Was I no longer had you on the same path as me.

You stepped into a new path,

With someone whom you decided to spend the future with.

So I commend you on your journey forth,

Bid my farewell,

For it was nice knowing you,

Even if it was quite awhile.

Your Tomoe glanced at me one last time,

Before I left.

I know she would fulfill your needs,

But there's always one day for you to think of me.

At the end of June month,

You finally let me go.

Years passed,

As things changed.

For you time maybe went by fast.

For me time went too slow.

It felt like a lifetime since I last saw you.

However, I did find a way to move on with my life.

I ended college and became a successful business woman,

But never did we keep in contact with each other.

The boy whom you mistaken to be my boyfriend,

Was nothing more then just a friend.

The last time I heard from him,

He told me you married your high school sweetheart,

And lived happily ever after.

That was all I needed to hear,

After all your happiness counted,

Not mine.

You found a path with happiness,

When mine just started.

Within time I grew much older,

Along with it came wisdom.

I now knew the true meaning of love and life.

Love was what kept us bounded together.

It kept us whole,

When we were not.

It kept us alive,

And along with it made new life.

What I call it,

People may call it differently,

But how I look at it is,

The gravity of love made us all stronger.

Through experiencing my love for you,

It helped me grow stronger as a person.

It turned me into a woman.

For love was just one experience of life I still walked with.

Now while driving in this rainy night,

I decided to stop at my old school,

To welcome the unwelcomed,

To experience my high school years when I was with you.

I stopped in front of the school,

Stepped outside my car,

Just to take a look at my old school once again.

Memories flooded my mind,

Plagued my thoughts,

Invaded my every next move.

I remembered your smile that brightened your face,

I remembered your eyes,

That sparkled, that dazzled at every place.

I remembered the way your arms used to embrace me,

The way your voice sounded like,

Even when you were like a mile away.

Kenshin, my beloved Kenshin,

I never forgot you.

Even the moments when you weren't in my mind,

Something always stirred the memory of you.

You were the one my heart chose.

The one that made me believe there was faith.

Through you I believed destiny would make our path meet,

But until that day,

I must walk these steps alone.

I remembered once,

I read a newspaper saying you were famous,

You became a star with your own business.

Later on in your happily years,

Faith decided to take its turn,

And you lost your sweet Tomoe,

Something that should have never been done.

I wished I could have been there for you,

I wish I could always be there for you,

But I couldn't,

For you were there,

And I was here.

Maybe then after her death,

I began to believe in faith again.

But to know that love itself never dies,

Kept my heart broken,

Until there were times I wished I died instead of her.

Thinking of you and her now,

Did not bring tears into my eyes,

Instead it brought a smile upon my face.

Wherever you are may life treat you well,

For I decided to move on,

Get married and have kids.

Yes my love for you will never die,

But life still continues for me,

And waiting for you is something I could no longer do.

As I turned around to leave,

I saw my familiar oak tree.

At first I never noticed,

But then my eyes really began to see,

In the end,

You stood there and waited for me.

(The End. )

Summary: To help many of you who did not get the poems, here's a brief summary what they are about:

Poem 1: Kaoru's perspective was on how she realized how much she loves Kenshin but never realized it until Tomoe came in the picture. In the beginning she was standing by the oak tree, the place where she and Kenshin met. That rainy night, she waited for him, but he never came to meet her. It was from that night he started avoiding her. He spent most of his time with Tomoe and when Kaoru met a new friend he decided to confront her.

Poem 2: Kenshin's perspective was on how he came to like Tomoe and how he compared her to Kaoru. He looked at Kaoru more as his best friend, someone who was there for him. He looked at Tomoe as someone who gave him more meaning in his life. In the end he decided to confront Kaoru once again to find out she loves him, because she wasn't acting like herself.

Poem 3: Tomoe's perspective was on how she first came to love Kenshin, and why she loves Kenshin now. She talks about how she's afraid of losing him, however she found out that Kaoru, Kenshin's best friend also loved him. She decided to talk to Kaoru, and when she tried to make friends with her, she learned that Kaoru was an independent person, who didn't need sympathy. Kaoru chose her own path.

Poem 4: Once again in Kaoru's perspective, Kaoru talks about how Kenshin and her grew more distant, and how that with time, things changed. As time continued she moved on with her life, to only have continuous memories of him caught up in her mind. Finally she decided to stop off at her old school to check upon it, thinking it was like a message she was receiving. There she met up with old memories once again in the night of rain, but instead of her waiting for Kenshin, he waited for her.

This ending turned out to be rather ironic, because at the beginning when the first poem began, Kaoru waited for him at their special place in the night of rain. In the end Kenshin waited for her in their special place, in the night of rain. It proved that faith brought her back to him, and that he thought about her within the years. He must have really cared for her, even though he loved Tomoe.

That's all and thanks for reading!