I'm writing this down to ease my pain:
For days
we trained at the same dojo.
We both
had stamina and talent to grow.
We both
gained tremendous experience,
Exterminating
opponents with nary second glance.
While the
others of your kind were pinkie pushovers,
Concerned
as much with boys, palaces, and makeovers.
I saw
inside you a true warrior spirit,
Ruthless
determination: that refusal to quit.
It wasn't
until I began asking around,
Your life
story of misery I had found.
Incredible
power tempered by a just heart
Trying
hard to be social, to fit in, from the start.
You made
quite a few friends there at the tourney
A
difficult task in light of your journey.
Inside
your soul I saw so much of myself.
With
tragedy and betrayal, intimate hell,
Two souls
well acquainted but similarities cease
For our
paths of life were of opposite lease:
Mine black
as night, yours bright as day.
No! I had
to remain so far away.
How could
you ever love one such as me?
As how you
so hate genocide and tyranny.
Two crimes
on the list of many I have committed,
No jury in
the universe would find me acquitted.
My life
spent an endless quest for power
While you
hunted aliens for legal tender.
Our lives
and worlds have nothing in common.
So this
ache in my heart I am forced to give up on.
As you
read this you might well be surprised,
But I
swore once or twice you glanced love in my eyes.
I'd
never guess anything could replace my obsession
Yet you
are so far above any mere possession.
Never
before my soul surfaced such desire
Not wholly
unselfish but not really Dragmire!
By now the
tournament has come to an end
And I am
back home at my colossus in sand.
If ever
you should change your mind
By gunship
my homeland is not hard to find.
Come
swiftly to me my beloved Aran,
Into this
dark heart let light shine again.
What can never be.