After starting InuYasha again, (I know, it's an obsession :) I decided to try this poem. My heart aches for InuYasha, especially in the early episodes. A few of these lines just came to me, but some I really had to think about. I'm not very well versed in poetry, so let me know what you think. Please review, thanks!

5/24/17

InuYasha's Torment

Guilt resides within my heart, pain that I could not save

The woman I had loved and the life we could have made

Born under her own unique light

She was entrusted with a serious plight

Protect the jewel from all who seek

For their strength to grow and their subordination cease

They condemned the woman who owned my heart

We never knew, she was doomed from the start

From deception, I fell under an eternal sleep,

As fate would have it, she soon followed me.

50 years later, I would revive

But Kikyo would not survive

Shame plagues my every thought

Over the ending that we wrought

She felt the sting of despair

So much that she couldn't hear my prayer

"It wasn't me," I scream,

But her ears are deaf to my pleas

Now another needs my protection

And again, I am hindered by my affection

I wish for her to always be near

But my past sins lead me to fear

That I cannot keep her safe

So, I send her away

And the distance kills us both

But what hurts the most

Is that she will never know

How much I love her.