InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Poetry of the Sengoku Jidai ❯ Feather's Edge ( Chapter 9 )

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Feather's Edge

Ane-ue, her beautiful face shines a light on his heart,

illuminating the horror behind his eyes,

fading reality until nothing remains of him

but the blood on his hands.

Her sorrow bores through him until he is a darkness,

a hole with no beginning and no end,

a void full of the anguish he has wrought.

Her love's light blinds him in an onslaught… of his own memory.

The memories roar inside him and fuse into a heavy weight,

pulling him down into the flood, drowning him in regret

that a thousand lifetimes' service will not redeem.

But in another lifetime he would not remember… would not hear the screams echo.

Kaze bears him aloft, as though she would lift him from the tide,

back to where the memories spawn and breed.

Lying at her feather's edge the air whistles a siren call,

inviting him to let it bear his burden back down into the dark… to silence the screams forever.

He gives himself to fate like a broken wing -

allowing his body into the crushing embrace of gravity.

But the wind itself sweeps through the feather's heart,

blowing her down to catch him… lifting him again… in the prison of his life.

Vertigo settles into his core, misunderstanding

her act of mercy as a sublime cruelty.

She satisfies his plea, “I saved you

so you can save us all.”

Ane-ue = Sister

Kaze = wind