A/N: Written for the 100_poems challenge on livejournal, poem 13/100 and day 13. (I wrote them out of order).
Character Poems: the Chosen through Time
2 Ishida Yamato
He didn't mind
being surrounded by others
But not so few.
(especially when he had to wear a mask
for his brother)
It became unavoidable
then.
He couldn't hide
in crowds,
far away from everyone,
because there wasn't enough shadow
to hide behind.
He was stuck in the spotlight:
a spotlight he didn't want
And he slipped up.
He kept slipping up
and burying what he could
behind the shell of his heart.
It cracked
in the end –
of course it would crack
(his brother didn't even need that mask
anymore…)
But then, they, his friends,
were the ones who put it together too.
He didn't have to hide
himself, but be
Himself.