Leaving the Nest: Being the thoughts of a certain Hanyou regarding a strange set of emotions...

Guilt, don't leave me.

My companion of old,

you stand by my shoulder

since that fateful day

long ago.

You hold my hand

hold me,

in your cool embrace,

And have never let me go; but once...

you stand away.

Why?

Why do you abandon that which you have protected

for so long.

From life, from love,

from the future...

My constant companion, you fade away.

All that I have known fades with you.

And all that I see now is frightening and

Wondrous new.

All that I feel now is

hope...

Guilt, my guardian,

why do I forget you?

Why does she

make me...

I think I want to...

I want to love her...but,

Oh, how I love her...but,

I don't know how...

You taught me many things, my guardian,

but never...