Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ Final Fantasy VII Poems ❯ Cloud: Somebody, Anybody ( Chapter 20 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Somebody, Anybody

When I was little,

I was always thinking...

About how I'll be

this great hero.

Not some pathetic zero.

About how I'll change the world.

Be the best there is...

Then I grew up.

I finally faced reality.

Sometimes thinking about

how and why nobody

seemed to need me.

I wanted to be somebody.

Not just an anybody...

All those built up stories

about me as a hero,

those are just lies.

Soemthing Tifa encouraged

in my little fantasy world.

Where I wasn't...

the frail little boy

with no self-esteem.

Or confidence

for that matter.

And yet,

people still stand by me.

This group of people

I have learned to

actually count on.

Despite they may leave...

I couldn't handle that.

Not now...

Not after Aeris,

Zack and even Sephiroth.

After Jenova was gone,

I just did the easiest

thing in this world.

I killed a man to save it.

A man.

Not some great

supernatural wonder

you might think.

Just someone who was as

troubled and broken

as I was.

Does that classify me

as a "somebody" now?

If so, I take it back.

Forget "somebody".

I'm just happy to

be a body.

Even an "anybody".