Okay, even I don't understand this pairing... and yes, these are both Shakespearean sonnets: three quatrains, fourteen lines, iambic pentameter, "ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG" rhyme scheme, the lot. Told you I was an English Lit student.
Plus, this is a challenge, so why not try some different styles of writing as I go along?
Day 22
Sonnet
(Selen/Masamune)
Masamune
At school, we're doing sonnets (not again).
Our teacher told us that we had to write
One to our loved ones – I picked you, Selen,
Although I know that rhyme is not quite right.
A month we've been together, since the day
We fought not as a fight, but more to flirt.
We understood each other through our blades -
And then I felt afraid when you were hurt.
I never thought that I would love the one
Who cheated in a battle, and who lied,
Who stole the battle that I should have won
Who stole my strength, my passion and my pride.
But – here's the bit that gets me – the worst part
Is, after all of that, you stole my heart.
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Selen
A heart cannot buy bread, or shield from rain
And so to say I stole it isn't true
I only steal the things which ease the pain
Of hunger, thirst, of fingers turning blue.
However, Masamune, I admit
Your heart was not a trade-good, but a prize
I took it little bit by little bit
Exchanged it for the passion in your eyes
And for the way you never let me down
For that's a prize that money cannot buy
In any city, village, market town.
(And yeah, I never liked that Shakespeare guy
But still, your poem's sweet, and so are you
And so I wrote a sonnet for you too)
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(P.S.
They say all's fair in love and war
I never understood before
How sonnets say what I cannot
That yes, I like you, quite a lot
But Masamune, think of this
Next time, just give me a kiss)