Crimson blood

streams gracefully over that face of beauty like when rain drops upon him.

Those golden eyes blaze with passion as well as with sorrow.

Death has come perhaps too soon…

Why did that beauty have to be so much more in the face of death?

I could see your life in your eyes even when it fades away.

"To die at the peak of beauty…," you said.

"How romantic."

You knew already?

Maybe in death, I'll begin to miss you.

Somehow, I was glad to meet you one last time.

Author's Note

I was inspired to write this after playing through that battle with Yaha and the Gnomes. I was also inspired by an artwork of Yaha where he was seated in a nice chair in the room with the Holy Crystal, hat in lap, hands partially folded, his eyes closed peacefully and his face had blood on his left side. In the background of that official artwork were the Gnomes and in the center was the Holy Crystal and some image of his past self in it. It was beautiful.

As usual, take this poem's view from anyone though I wrote it in one's.

Drakengard 2 belongs to Square-Enix, cavia, and Ubisoft. I own only a copy of the game.