Author's Notes

And here's the last installment of this poem collection. Golden Hour. Set in ep33.

Golden Hour refers to the first and last hour of sun in the day, ie. Daybreak or the hour where the sun sets. Light is softer, more reddish in hue and the shadows are longer. Theoretically, here is where the most shadows exist given the interplay between light and darkness necessary to create them.

Which essentially means, if you've followed the times given in the titles, we've come around in a half day circle. The dwindling sun giving way to the night to the first hints the following morning.

By the way, if anyone's seen another poem collection on this site, let me know please.

Enjoy, and tell me what you think.

Approaching Dusk

It wasn't a one step process getting there. Set during/after the Duskmon saga.

Kouichi K/Koichi

Rating: T

Genre/s: Poetry/Angst

Golden Hour

I had nothing. My one deranged comfort stripped away,
Taken by the one in fault, innocent most.
His eyes, blue like mine, but reflecting neither,
Torn, threaded, but bound by light as my ties fell.

He demanded the truth. I gave it. He took it.
He faced it like I could not. He looked at me, then accepted me.
I, the one who had spilled his blood upon these very plains,
And the others, fire, wind, thunder, ice...they followed, they forgave.

Darkness stooped, but it faded not. My failure, my guilt
Burying a success I saw not then till danger showed.
He, the one who had given my double-edged sword,
And offered it back, blade face down, hilt glowing black, beckoning...

I looked, between the light which still burned, with traces of guilt and torn trust,
Then the darkness which had stolen it in a bitter comfort, forever astray.
I stood. I made my choice. No more.
I was done hiding in the dark, shying away from light's shadow.

Light burst forth, blinding, empowering.
That same light, but no longer with pain.
Fear, hurt, that was what it had been, the agony I carried, no more.
That true power, shadowed darkness, focused my hand, my heart: aku de wa nai.

A/N: Aku de wa nai: there is no more evil.