A/N: Written for the 100_poems challenge on livejournal, poem 52/100 and day 23.
I think I'm missing a poem in the Tamers section, or at least my numbers are telling me I'm missing one. Can't find who though; maybe after exams I'll be thinking a little more clearly.
Character Poems: the Chosen through Time
13. Matsuda Takato
Maybe he wasn't on earth enough –
wandered off too far, too long
and didn't pay attention to the reality
before his face and form.
His pyramid of ideals crumbled
then collapsed, even with the stairs
he'd already left behind…
Maybe he could have stopped some things
if he'd looked at the closer sky
But he kept, would keep, those ideals
because some things
just weren't on earth to find
It didn't have to be a pyramid
after all; he'd find another shape that worked
just as well.
His dramas weren't perfect
but it was better than none at all.