From: Miss_Led "Yume Mata Wa Shinjitsu" - "Dream or Reality" Did I even remember you the morning after? Did not that single tear even grace the soft swell of my cheek? I could have sworn I heard the birds crying in the windows, Or was that, perhaps, the wailing of a broken soul? The sounds without were instantly diminshed by the heavy beating of my heart... Can I say that you were even there in the first place? What can one do with only a memory, So quickly fading that time cannot grasp it? Yet, there is my heart. It beats in time with the memory that is even now ceasing to exist. But why do I hold it so? What is a memory that I would give the very soul within my body to hold it again? This memory, I fear, Is the creation of a fanciful mind, Too distant from my touch to have ever been real... Still I cling, holding on to a thread of thought, So sweet the heavenly bodies would not compare. Still I lay claim to the love I once had, The emotion that tells me I do exist, That the dream was reality. The infinately precious token which tells me I will live. Sunlight breaks through the shadow over my heart, Setting me free to roam, free to feel again, But the token I will keep, The memory shall remain, bittersweet though it be, In the center of my heart. Miss_Led '99 Hi Minna! Now that you've read the poem I think I'd better expalin myself. I wrote this to my best friend as a way of telling him how much his leaving affected me and how much I truely do love him. I just wrote it tonight even though the hurt still lingers on after over a year, the one thing I can be sure of is that he does love me too. He and I are family, I mean this in a way that conotoes the closeness which people can develop with one another (think the tightly knit bond of the Kenshin-gumi, lose one peice of the puzzle and there is chaos). After reading it a few more times I realized how very much my feelings were mimiced by Kaoru on May 14th, Meiji 11. The day Kenshin became a wanderer again. You'll see a reflection of both my feelings and her's, sorrow is universal afterall. The bittersweet memory in Kaoru's place would be Kenshin's sayonara. I like Kaoru still hold a memory but continue to grow with the ones whom I care about after the fact. I never thought my life could relate so much to ink! ^_^ Miss --------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- ATTN ONELIST USERS: stay current on the latest activities, programs, & features at ONElist by joining our member newsletter at Click ------------------------------------------------------------------------