Dan and Tsunade

I strain to keep awake and see
Loving eyes gaze down at me.
"The bleeding stopped. You'll be fine."
But tears stained that angel of mine.

The cool rain plunges down on me
In patterns of rhyming poetry
As your warm hands push my chest.
Eyes are failing. Need to rest.

In rain you're calling my name in vain,
Choking with tears that voice you strain,
"You'll be okay. Your day's not today."
But slowly that voice drifted away…

The rain still falls upon your face.
I think to myself, "What a disgrace.
I could not save you from terrible death,
And now I'm filled with tons of regret."

I scream. I cry. But you have died.
I scream. I sob. The others sighed.
"Tsunade-sama, Dan is dead."
It all echoes in my head.

Blood—your blood—is all over,
I feel my life is also over.
My screams shattered the broken night.
My heart shattered with utmost fright.

(posted on March 3, 2005)