Hi! Sorry for not updating but to be honest I just want some breaks from it now. I have updated practically every day ever since I started on this site, and now I want to have a break once a week, and also I am going away for three days soon, so I won't be updating then. This poem is about life held in the palm of your hand. Read on!

Disclaimer: Stop the music playing loud and clear...and stop people accusing me of owning YuGiOh!

I remember one time when I was just a little boy; a young one with so much to learn

My village and my life were attacked and my eyes; like the corpses around would burn.

Tears fell as I watched my mother and my family run away from the guards that day

But one caught my mother; she begged for freedom but her whim he wouldn't obey.

One thing I have cried and screamed over; I never had the chance to understand…

Is why he killed her before me there, when he held her life in the palm of his hand.

I remember one time when I'd grown up and the sun beat down on my gold and jewels

Watching my gang of thieves and the dark coven over which my greatness rules.

One of my group betrayed me, and they mutinied and rose up against my reign.

And I came down on that thief to torture him and cause him eternal aching pain.

Every body; all my loyal thieves, the true and honorable members of my stealing band

Watched silently as I took and crushed him; his life was held in the palm of my hand

I remember another time far from then, when I had entered the Pharaoh's abode

Was why after all the mockeries I placed upon him; after all the times I'd dared to goad.

I was finally there before him, and he looked down upon my in plain, simple disgust.

He could have locked me up; thrown away the key that freed the chains where I was trussed.

I was standing there before him with murder clear in my eyes, but it was not as planned.

He should have crushed me while for once he held my very life in the palm of his hand.

That was a relatively short poem, but it is all I can think of; I am drained having already wrote two chapters for my other fics, The Tale of a Thief and Exorcism of Shadows. Thanks:

ttSerenity –I know, but I want some sugar glass all the same. Real glass is made of sand. Anyway, does sugar glass cut skin? You could commit suicide by sugar if it does… Cool! I want a Latias, or maybe a Pikachu, but a baby Lugia from that one episode would be awesome! I will always keep dreaming! Thanks for reviewing, um…Exodia! (Not science, but still!)

Adele –No, no hugging Bakura; that is my job! (Hugs Bakura!) I am very glad you liked it! Yes, I update a lot; this was the second fic I ever wrote, and I've updated almost every day since then, so you can imagine all the time I spent on this. With fifty six chapters, I have spent at least twenty eight hours writing this fic alone, as each chapter takes roughly half an hour to write. Thanks for the praise, and for reviewing!

Stormrose Dewleaf –Ooh, yeah; reading that line you included, I realized it WAS sad! I never realize these things until people point them out. Except for my broken poem; that was always sad. Wait, do you know Japanese? I wish I did, but at my school you can't learn it. Should I get Inuyasha; it costs like tons for a boxed season, and there are three seasons available, but should I? I am considering it… Inuyasha is sexy, like Bakura, with his long white hair! I second Aurora, how is Alister a man? But no, seriously, I really DID think he was a girl the first time! Thanks for reviewing!

Calmhorizon –No, no one aspires to be lonely, but things go wrong; bad luck, hanging out with the wrong people, doing things unlike other people would, and sooner or later they call you a Gothic Loner that is obsessed with YuGiOh! Sorry, I went off topic. LOL! Ryou isn't mad; he is just in denial is all. He refuses to accept the death of his mother and beloved elder sister. Poor Ryou… He tells himself they are alive, and that they've moved or gone away on holiday or something. Love and Peace, thanks for reviewing!

Scarab Dynasty –Yeah, like I said to Adele, I have updated this almost every day since registering in February this year. I think of my ideas at the very last minute, and I make them up on the spot, which is a very risky thing to do, I suppose. I am so happy to receive your praise and your review! Thanks for reviewing!

Yugi's Light Keeps Me Pure –Yes, everyone has someone but Bakura…sad… On a scale of one to ten, with one being the lowest and ten being the highest, Alister is a six. Thanks for reviewing, I loved the poll, you should do more!

Love Sami.