The Second Movement
I
don't think anyone's ever gotten it right…
it's
not really a yellow flower, and it definitely isn't a red dot.
Red
devours gold.
…because
that's what happens to heroes and idiots all.
That's
what happens when a child is allowed to dream.
It
was
A
mask that spoke.
"Don't
get in my way."
It
was a sad, determined sort of smile.
"You're
trying to get yourself hurt."
I was forgotten on the forest floor where the smell of death waited.
He
said
'Oh,
how special your eyes must be, with the laughter shining
behind them!'
The
Lady said nothing at all.
"Your
family still loves you."
He
laughed. And laughed. "Love? They love me?"
Seek with eyes that truly see.
Kitsune
are men who wish to be foxes.
A
single flower. Dead white—snow white—
Lies.
There are leaves everywhere once fall's here.
Devoured his heart.
And if you find family, sweetling, don't you cry, dear.
Don't you cry.