Heartbeat
by Ichigo2491
WARNING: This poem is angsty and contains major spoilers for Chapter 470 of the Inuyasha manga. If you have not yet read this chapter of the manga then proceed at your own risk and don't you dare say that I didn't warn you, or I will be pissed off at you for not reading the spoiler warning. Sorry but I am depressed and in a bad mood so deal with it!
Holding your still form in my arm
Longing for your heartbeat
Cursing the fact that you've come to harm
That cold death you've gone to greet.
I was blind all along
Loving you was never wrong
Now I can't start your heart
And I know that you are gone.
Has it truly come to this?
How I could I my chance have missed?
I locked my love away
But you came closer to it each day.
Once I took my powers for granted
Now with Tenseiga I'm disenchanted
For saving you it will not do
And it's all my fault that your life is through.
I can no longer conceal my pain
My failures are haunting me
My voices are taunting me
Asking me what I have gained.
I would rather die right here
With you, little girl, and disappear
Than linger on in fear and doubt.
My time as well has all run out.
If you must die than so must I
Unaccustomed to defeat
Now willing my own end to meet
Holding your still form in my arm
And longing for your heartbeat.