A/N: Written for the 100_poems challenge on livejournal, poem 25/100 and day 17. (still out of order). And here's to the quarter mark. :)
Stopped posting for a while (totally forgot, but here it is again :D)
Character Poems: the Chosen through Time
19. Akiyama Ryo
Most people wanted power
but he had a power he didn't want.
At one point, it had stolen
everything he'd had from him
except a partner
he could have gone a lifetime meeting without.
He wouldn't have lost his friend then –
a friend he only now saw
face frozen on pictures and a TV screen
But he wouldn't have found friends either
And the same went with his family:
half lost, half gained…
but it wasn't the same.
Same father maybe,
same looking father, but who could say?
Everything else had changed
And even after all he'd gained
in the end
he sometimes wished he hadn't had to leave
that old peaceful life of his behind.
He never thought of that though
on the happy road.