Disclaimer: Gee, I wonder what is supposed to be written here...Kouga, Ayame, and the rest of the wolf tribe all belong to someone other than me. And I know that similar poems have been written before, so the only thing I actually end up owning is the arrangement of the words...
Shed No More Tears: or, The reflections of a certain Wolf Demon concerning one very important young lady…
Rainbows reflect
In a glistening tear;
Hidden from sight but not…
I sense how your heart is breaking.
A woman now but still young, naïve;
You struggle to contain the pain
Behind a calm façade.
You have not learned, yet,
to bluff through your tears,
as I have.
Those childish eyes…
but I can't protect you.
I have failed so many times;
so many friends,
so many.
My brothers…
Few still stand.
Broken, beaten,
forged and weathered, I hide my inner self
behind a mask I should have outgrown long ago.
A blundering buffoon
A braggart.
I hide my heart, now
behind an unrequited love I know to be safe.
I can pretend that I love her,
and that is enough…
clumsy stitches,
they hold my battered heart together …
but slender Iris, I dare not…
Please.
Let me protect you one last time,
From grief and from danger,
From pain and from death.
Go,young innocent,
while your heart can still see the lunar rainbow.
Shed no more tears for this cheating buffoon.
Death shadows his footsteps.
Go! while life still follows your own.
I can sense
your heart breaking, but…
Gentle rainbow, you must not sense the pain in mine...
Again, the title is purposefully ambiguous…is it Ayame who is being told not to cry? Or is it really Kouga who is trying not to?
Please! Comments, suggestions, critiques! This poem fought the entire way out, and I'm still not entirely sure I'm happy with it...it just feels a little too random...