Meaning

by Hotaru/Amber


Why?
Why is there
This darkness?
Why is there
That light?
Why this street?
Why that shadow?
Why that child,
Running away from her home?

The small sliver of the moon,
Tries to cast some light,
On this decaying world.

Why?
I walk - I am lost - I am gone.
Why?
I can't remember.

Why this?
Why that?
Why her?
Why?

I walk faster -
The street seems to fade -
The city a blur around me -
I feel like a bird on wing.

Faster!
Why?!
Faster!

Why am I here?
Why?

Wall - water - pain.
Light/dark
Painful/Soothing
Memory/Lost

I fall to my knees -
Sitting in a puddle.

Tears - tears - tears
Why?

As they fall -
One by one -
They splash in the water below.

Why?!

And I look down -
And three faces seem to appear.

The three of us...

"Shelley..."

So...

"Sarah..."

That's why...

"Shelley..."

I reach out...
Touch her face...
Which vanishes with a ripple.

"I'll be there soon."

I stand, and I know...
I'm here for them.

For Shelley's memory...
So that it never...
Ever...
Happens again...

And for Sarah.

I can't do anything for Shelley.

But I can help Sarah.

And when I'm done...

I'll be back with her.


My soul is restless...
And I have found myself in this world,
Once again. 

I will suffer this now,
So when the two of us look down to Sarah...
We may see a world a bit brighter than the one
We ourselves lived in.

Wait for me, Shelley.
I'll be coming home...
Soon.