Focus: Hiei
POV: Hiei
Pairings: None

Title: Doppelganger

I am the doppelganger dressed in black,
Who masquerades behind a frozen glance;
My path is long, and never shall turn back,
For death’s pale face is my own countenance.
Beyond all hope, and far beyond all care,
I forge my wall of perfect-made pretense—
For after all, I’m never really there,
So what care I for things that must make sense?
Whatever novel creature once was I,
The memory of is lost to fire’s kiss,
And whether that same creature once could cry
I cannot say, for naught exists but this:
Defined forever by the soul I lack,
I am the doppelganger dressed in black.

Focus: Hiei
POV: None
Pairings: None

Title: Dreamer

Found in eternity, lost once again;
Waking in nothingness, dreaming in sin.
Steel eyes tell the tale of the years they have borne—
Ever in sorrow, forbidden to mourn.

Faith is a falsehood, forged only of ice,
A mockery to those who have lived the hard price.
You no longer fear that you will not survive:
The toil of your heart is to know you’re alive.

Time flows about you in eddies and waves.
Your tongue, turned to dust, cannot speak what it craves.
You have naught but tendrils of memory to find
The last lingering wisp of the choice left behind.

The plea of the haunted encased full in lead;
The cold brush of ageless eternity sped;
The price that you pay is to never be whole,
To exist with the knowledge
You once had a soul.