InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Green and Gold ❯ Chapter 1

Disclaimer: Inuyasha does not belong to me, he belongs to Rumiko Takahashi. The poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” doesn't belong to me either, that belongs to Robert Frost. I could go all day with things that don't belong to me, but that would be depressing, so on with the show.

 

 

Nature's first green is gold

Her Hardest hue to hold

Her early leaf's a flower

But only so an hour

Then leaf subsides to leaf

So dawn goes down to day

Nothing gold can stay Robert Frost

 

No matter how invincible we think we are, in the end we are still merely mortal beings. Perhaps if we were able to fully comprehend this concept early in life, our journeys might become less treacherous. I'm not sure if I truly believe this.

 

Mortals flit through the seasons of their life, always expecting and endless summer, never preparing for the winter that will eventually come. I am no different than the rest. I might have understood that there would be a winter to my life, but somewhere along the way I denied the truth. I wished to stay in my own endless summer. Looking back, perhaps that is where I went wrong.

 

I fell in love once and even knowing all that I know now, I would still have chosen him. For these few precious moments the feeling of being near him was new and fresh and green. It was gold, and I loved it. I know with all that I am that given the chance to bloom, our love would have been the most beautiful of flowers. I am outside the realm of time and now reside in an endless winter. Now I can only observe others travel through the seasons of their lives, watching it blossom, bloom, and fall.

 

All things come to an end and all things are eventually born again. Just as the leaves bud, flower and die only to be reborn in the spring, so has my soul been reborn in spring. Maybe this time love will grow with the seasons because nothing gold can stay.