Poem the First: Damaged

by Hiper Bunny (hiperbunny@hotmail.com)

Archive: master_apprentice, everybody else, please ask

Category: poetry, Series: The Verses of Parallel Journies

Rating: PG I'd say...

Warnings: it's sad and dark

Spoilers: none, this is AU

Feedback: yes, please, any comments welcome.

Gentle Reader,

My PadaWan, kriski, is writing a series just now. Hopefully you've read the first two installments. What you now have before you is the first installment of a series of poems written as companion pieces for that as-yet-untitled series. While you could probably read either series without the other, my hope is that these poems add to your enjoyment of kriski's series. I'm fairly certain these bits and snippets aren't going to seem all that Jedi without her stories to go with them. Feedback greatly appreciated, flames stored for emergency use during the nuclear winter.

Hiper Bunny

The Verses of Parallel Journies
Poem the First: Damaged

When you want to bleed
              you
 Reach out for the pain.
Sincerity in every motion, red runnels of desperation
 The heart weeps tears of blood.

When the cuts are too deep
  you
 are too much in pain
No artifice can disguise, no mask worn can hide
 The soul in tangled tatters.

When you want to bleed
              you
 Are beginning then to heal.
Life yet is where blood flows, and where life is hope yet grows
 And there's work yet to be done.

When the cuts are too deep
  you
        Can't see beyond the break
Though the Universe goes on, you are stopped and broken, lost
 Cold and still are the dead and dying.


~finis~