All right...here's the partner to that last poem!
Thoughts on my Other, Part II
Yugi
Why has my closest friend begun to shy away from me?
We've been together ever since the night I set him free.
I've told him secrets I kept safe inside my mind for years;
All the worst mistakes I've made, all my darkest fears.
He shares what little he recalls of life in Egypt old—
Stories that would make you laugh, or make your blood run cold.
But…
Why do I get the feeling that he's leaving something out?
That he's not telling all the truth, beyond a single doubt?
I mean—he treats me like a saint, like some redeemer bright;
He acts like he is nothing, someone lost to dark and night.
I am only human, and he's my closest friend;
Always caring, always bold, always with some strength to lend.
Smart and quick, sharp and bright, ever on the run;
His fate and mine are intertwined, and we are both as one.
I still don't understand it—what does he have to hide?
Unless…
He mutters in his sleep sometimes, about 'darkness inside'.
Is that Yami hates himself? He thinks my 'light' will dim?
He thinks he has to earn the right to have me around him?
He earned my love and earned my trust a long, long time ago—
But when I try to tell him that, he always answers…No…