Title: Shards
Author: kajamiku
Summary: Orochimaru x Sasuke. A poem I randomly wrote and wanted to put up.
Shards
There are shards that glitter around your feet.
The remnants of a mirror shattered, breaking veracity.
That image you saw is only reflection.
The silver crunches under bare feet, substance dark as wine staining marble flesh.
The rage that holds you, traps you, breaks you, flitters blind in the dark.
Screams rapt and caged with self control that shivers.
You can feel it folding. You can feel it falling away.
This chapter ends and he is gone.
No more to plague your waking days.
To linger only in quickened memory, and hide behind dusty windows in your mind.
They're old.
They're worn.
They're fast turning to ash in the harsh flames of your disappointment.
The promises he made turning bitter in your mouth, making you hate and seethe.
He had always said you'd be strong.
He had always told you that man would die.
He had always said you'd be his.
And he was the one who paled and shrank away from the day; a death that lasts, while his only memorial is in the shards at your feet.
The blood that stains the glass.
The life that withered and vanished.
Any lasting purity non-existent; a thing he imagined.
And now there is no one left to see it.