Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh!. I own only my imagination. You sue, you die.

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The Future: Defeating the Past

The future:

that is all I am interested in,

all I shall ever be interested in.

There is nothing for me in the past;

there is nothing there but

darkness,

hatred,

anger.

It drives me on—

memories that must be forgotten—

memories that I refuse to let

haunt me. I have defeated the past;

I have set waste to the towers that

blocked my vision of the future.

The future:

that is all I am interested in,

all I shall ever be interested in.

Theories:

those theories that they use to clog my ears,

my thoughts—

they are nothing but trash,

garbage to be disposed of,

to be prove wrong.

Friendship—

it does not help;

it never helps;

how can it help?

There is nothing to rely on but one's own

strength.

There is nothing but one's own

strength,

the strength

that resides deep within,

waiting to be released for the final moment of

triumph.

Anger, Hatred:

they drive me on,

like a knife in my side.

There is nothing else

in my heart,

in my soul.

What else should there be? I have been

disfigured,

defiled,

by the past.

The Future:

it is all I am interested in,

all I shall ever be interested in.

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I am SO sorry for taking SO long to update this anthology! At least it is not a song parody, but an actual poem that sprang from depths of my imagination! (That would have made me feel really cheap…if it were a parody, I mean…)

Hopefully, some of you can identify the "speaker" in this poem. It is based off a later episode. I am not going to say who it is: I want people to guess (and give me their guesses!). If anyone is right, I will let you know in the next update. (And there will be one soon! I am already getting another inspiration as I type!)

Iteria: Oh, I had better forget most of it by the time ShonenJump releases it (which, at the rate they are going, will be a very long time from now). Hopefully, I will forget it by the time I see it in the anime. And I hope I forget most of what I just learned (as in, that site you gave me with the information on it that I do not want to broadcast for the sake of other people who do not like spoilers), or the show is going to be very boring for me. I need to learn self-control… -_____- But all the same, thank you very much for the website information. And yes, "it" is fitting to "him." (I think you know what I mean.)

When the English version gets to the end of Battle City, much less the Doom Arc, I am going to be sitting in my room watching something more decent. But, if I do bother to watch the dub, I will probably spend so much time laughing that I will miss at least half of what is going on! (A friend of mine has seen part of the Doom Arc, and said that the English version is going to have one heck of a time making it appropriate for younger children.)