~I know I said I'd do a different character, but I just got finished
watching Samurai X: The movie, and I couldn't help but write this. I'm
still working on my other ones. I'll be adding more sometime. I don't know
when. There's only certain times I actually feel like writing poetry so I
don't write it as much as my other stories~
POV: Kenshin

The Song That Will Never Go Away:

Tears are dropping in a silent field
In the darkness echoing
Silence roars upon the dead
Blood fresh strewn on many

Lives are lost this bloody night
The moon does this declare
The night when blood turned to tears
Flowing down my haunted face

In the silence of the void
My heart grows ever weary
Of the pain of that heavy burden
Knowing that it was because of me

I cannot stop the flow of tears
The pain that grips my heart
My victim's blood runs down my sword
It burns right through my skin

Crimson tears are falling now
Blood or tears I know not anymore
There is no difference now to find
I can't take back the slaughter

A manslayer slays till the end
There can be no turning back
The path is chosen once you bring
That sword up to the kill

If I could go back
And change that night maybe
I would have done it differently
But who can know for sure?

Who knows if it was I who was right?
Or was it them instead?
How can you see through the lies?
And all the bloodstained hands?

Is there a way to tell?
A way to find the truth?
Can I really know my heart?
And what I should really do?

There's something that's been calling me
There's something in my heart
It's been hiding in the deepest place
Hidden from my sight

In fear I worry that I will
Become that murderer again
In the deepest darkest way
Could my heart return?

Could my heart be foul and wrong?
Could it be the cause?
Am I the one who needs to die?
To save the lives of those who've cried?

I do not know what lies within
The darkness of my soul
The weary edges of my mind
And the center of my heart.

I do not know how I should repent
Or if I even can
Should my blood be spent with them?
Or left to carry on?

People say there's worse things than death
There's horrors you can find.
I think that I have found that true
As I sit here contemplating tonight

The words don't form upon my lips
I can't think of what to say
The silence echoes endlessly
In the void that has become my heart

Sitting here once again
Knowing I'm alive
It almost makes it unbearable
Knowing all of them have died

Looking back at their pale faces
Their eyes glazed over in death
My soul failed to see
The hurt I left behind

In this void I long to stay
Where sorrow cannot touch me
But this void is shattering away
Leaving no protection from the past

The shards of pain are piercing
My torn and shattered heart
This loneliness is my payment
This sorrow is well deserved

Knowing that tomorrow
Could never bring a better day
Knowing that the past would always
Be there forever to stay

Knowing that my actions are forever
I can't go back now
Knowing that I cannot stop the flow
Of blood that seeps out their veins

I can't feel my heart anymore
It's numb from hurt and sorrow
The only caress I feel
Is that of teardrops falling

Please forgive me
All of you
Who've died upon my blade

Please forgive me
Silent ones
Who in their graves they stay

Please forgive me
Crying ones
Whose families I have slain

In the darkness of the night
The haunting melody does play
The song of death and murder and blood
The song that will never go away.