A/N: Bet you thought I was finished here, eh? Didn't you? It's alright, so did I. But I'm back! With a poem from Leon's perspective for once. Whoddathunk?

Most days I just want to
Scream
Or cry
Do something
Do anything
To let my friends
My loves
Know I'm still thinking of them
Still grieving for them
But every loss
Every failure
Gets lodged in my throat
And I can't breathe
But then you
Silly stupid great-ninja-my-ass
You
Stub your toe
Or slip in a puddle
And let loose a
Bedlam to wake the dead
And you will carry on
Hopping around one-legged
Clutching your injured appendage

You'll swear a streak
Blue enough to make Cid blush
At me
For just standing back
Watching
Just watching
Your antics

And I will never tell you this
(Though maybe I should)
But when I see you
With your melodramatic wailing
The knot in my throat loosens
And when you stop acting like
A brat
I can breathe again

Because
You cried for me
And for that
Only for that
Do I give you
"Five more minutes"
Every morning
And tolerate your
Incessant begging for "a piggy back ride"
Because without you
I would suffocate.