What Rhymes with 'Titan'?

Chapter Three: What Rhymes with Cyborg?

Raven sighed as she exited the training room. She had just finished her teaching session with some of the younger Titans. It had been Dick's grand idea to give her all the pupils with magic and/or physic powers.

… and they were a damn handful… so stressful.

"I need to meditate." She said as she padded her way to the roof. But while the mystic girl was on her way she happened past her room.

She stopped, and eyed the door… a smirk came to her face as she entered to grab something of importance before heading for the roof.

"Azarath… Metrione… Zinthos… Aahhh." Raven sighed as she levitated down the smooth surface of the roof till she was merely sitting.

That had been an especially relaxing meditation, and it would only get better after she wrote the next poem, she thought as she grabbed for the book and the pen.

"The day is looking up." She mumbled to herself.

I have yet to see the green one since I wrote the poem, but I feel better nonetheless. So it couldn't have been a total failure. In any case, today I'm going to write about one of my closest companions, and ironically no, it's not Starfire. It's Cyborg. Despite being loud and crude, he is very intelligent and on rare occasion a deep person. But, although he manages quite well, his half machine body is still a source of major depression for him. Though his will is so strong that he would never willingly show it, the other originals and myself can still see it, and it weighs heavily on my empathic mind. One way Cyborg has always managed it is with a lover. As the man has had many. And lately he has had the longest relationship he had in a while… but just the other day, he and she broke up. Iron will holding, he did nothing to show it, but it's eating away at him along with everything else in his life-

"Hey Raven! What you got there?" Beast Boy chirped from right behind the dark girl.

"Ah!" Raven screamed in surprise. She quickly hugged the book to her chest in an attempt to hide her scriptings from the green boy, "Beast Boy I'm trying to meditate, please go away."

Beast Boy stood up grinning mischievously in the daylight on the Tower's roof. For a moment it struck Raven how high they were, nearly on top of the world, it seemed.

"You weren't meditating, Rae. Don't lie to me! You were writing in that book. Is it a 'gasp'! Diary! Hehehe!"

"Silence."

"Oh no, this is way too good." The changeling snickered, "The icy Raven actually has a diary! Hehehe! Haha! Oh, what were you writing about anyway?"

"That's none of your business." Raven monotoned, wishing he would go away. But noting that he was indeed in a much lighter disposition then he was before she wrote the poem, meaning it had worked again.

This made the interruption slightly less migraine-inducing.

"Where you writing about your secret crush? You were weren't you! Hahaha! I've gotta see this!" Beast Boy said reaching for the book.

"Good bye, Beast Boy." Raven sighed as talons of dark energy grabbed the changeling and tossed him off the roof into the bay far below where he landed with a splash.

…

A moment of silence.

…

"Uncool!" came the barely audible squeak of Beast Boy's rage.

Raven smirked, "You think he'd learn, so aggravating. Good thing he's cute."

…

Raven then realized what she had just said and mentally smacked herself before continuing to write.

"What Rhymes with Cyborg?"

Stricken and Alone,

Behind cheer and bravado,

Lies cold pain unknown,

Add another dash of woe,

For you've lost another lover,

And again this festering pain,

With good feelings you cover,

So it looks as if you hold the reign,

I sense your plight,

As I do the other four,

And I thought I might,

Turn it in to something more…

And in the little black book the words Cyborg Poem, Number 1 was written, and this followed…

"What I Hate"

What I Hate,
What I Hate,
What I Hate,
What I HATE!

Kill you,
Smite you,
I all around,
Despise you!

THIS IS WHAT I HATE!
WHAT I WANT TO KILL!
MY LOVE YOU ABATE!
YOUR BLOOD I WANT SPILL!

What I Hate,
Is this,
Goddamn Fate,
I can't ever resist.
Leads me to pain,
Every time I try,
Inevitably in vain,
To try and touch the sky,
MY GODDAMN TEARS MAKE THE RAIN!

Snow my dead body,
Heart cold and callous,
Love hates me oddly,
Despite efforts pious.

What I Hate,
Hates me back,
What I Hate,
I want to attack,
What I Hate,
I loved, just fell off track.

Kill me,
Quit me,
Smite me,
Abate me,
Despise me,
Unweave me,
For the love of God just don't leave me!

What I Hate,
Is this,
Goddamn Fate,
I can't ever resist,
Leads me to pain,
Every time I try,
Inevitably in vain,
To try and touch the sky,
My goddamn tears my it rain.

Life without love,
Like a black dove,
Should not exist,
But even though I resist,
That is what I have,
What I Hate,
And what always seems to happen...

Raining from the sky in my eye,
Down to the bottle along with a sigh,
Intoxication won't stop the pain,
That races thru me after hearing her name.
Jesus, sweet Jesus, what's in this game?

I think I'll withdraw for a while,
Hang up my vigor and hang up my guile,
I'm tired and beaten again,
Tripped just before my win,
Now begone all my sin,
My own rain soaks my skin,
Crying to sleep again,
This is what I hate and it always seems to happen.

Now if you don't mind,
I'll end this rhyme,
I'm gonna go find,
My own soul this time...

Raven set down her pen and took a breath. She looked down sadly at the poem. When writing the second poems she always seemed to go into a trance where she took the emotions straight from the soul, and apparently Victor had placed a lot of his sanity on having a lover there to support him.

And he was dieing inside without her.

A small gloss covered Raven's eyes before she blinked it back.

I hope this poem helps Vic, he needs it so much.

Raven

Raven sighed… she felt relieved and tired. Pale hands closed the tome and picked up the ink pen.

The door to the roof opened and a wet Beast Boy stormed out, smelling of fish, "Raven, that was so uncool and lame I am TOTALLY seeing what's in the dia-"

"Bye Beast Boy." Raven sighed with a small smile as she sunk thru a dark portal down to her room.

The green changeling stood on the roof, mouth agape, completely stupefied.

…

"Dammit!"