735 In Response to Chapter 35 of HotM [21 October 2005]

Found among life’s cruel fate,
a need not wholly realized
but acted on completely.

“I will find you.”

If they had known this fate,
would the motions made
still have been done?
Perhaps at the beginning,
but at the end,
could he have let her stay
in the realm of the underworld?
With this change to their story,
could the emotions that drive them
survive and remain as they were?
But his choice had been made.
As he swung the blade,
he gave up the life he had
and thus may accept this turn
while still holding on to the one thing
that changed him to his core.

© Johanna Fugitt 2017

698 Declaration [15 April 2005]

Poet’s note: This is the sixth poem in a set of six inspired by the fanfiction House of the Moon by Resmiranda. Please see 693 Home for further information.


She stared at him with loud eyes.
He stared back with silent ones.
“I can’t see you anymore.”
“Why?” he asked, confused.
“I hate you.”
He blinked.
She ran.
He shook his head and followed.
He couldn’t not.
‘If that’s how she’s going to declare
how she feels for me, then fine. . .’
“I hate you, too.”

 

© Johanna Fugitt 2017

696 This Time [15 April 2005]

Poet’s note: This is the fourth poem in a set of six inspired by the fanfiction House of the Moon by Resmiranda. Please see 693 Home for further information.


Her heart had been broken before,
thus it would know that bittersweet pain again.
This time though,
it would be a loss which would kill her as well.

© Johanna Fugitt 2017

695 Thus Something Began [15 April 2005]

Poet’s note: This is the third poem in a set of six inspired by the fanfiction House of the Moon by Resmiranda. Please see 693 Home for further information.


Enemies at one time,
companions in another.
Lives and obligations keep them distinctly apart.
Were it not for the well and her strange destiny,
neither may have known the other.
She would have been a lost memory,
forgotten in the aging of time.
But Fate dictated her life,
leading her back to him time and again.
Thus something began which neither could halt,
which neither wanted to.

© Johanna Fugitt 2017

694 Freedom [15 April 2005]

Poet’s note: This is poem two of the six inspired by the fanfiction House of the Moon by Resmiranda. Please see 693 Home for additional information.


‘He had missed her.’
So began the turning of the tides.
Where once a frozen soul hid
inside the burning shell of cold indifference,
there now would smolder a desire,
so fierce, so different from anything else known before.
Where once weakness was thought to lie,
there now would be his strength.

 

© Johanna Fugitt 2017

693 Home [15 April 2005]

Poet’s note:  This is the first poem in the House of the Moon inspiration series. At this time I was heavily into the Inuyasha fandom and the House of the Moon is a fanfiction written by Resmiranda set after the anime/manga ends in an alternate universe still based on the canon series. This is one of six poems that I wrote and were inspired by this fanfiction. As usual, I do not own Inuyasha or any of the related materials.


The words they had spoken that one night,
odd though it may have been,
resonated through time.
“I can’t go home again, can I?” she had asked.
“That would require knowing where home was to begin with.” He had replied.
The more time they spent close in companionship,
the more it became apparent.
She would always be home where he was.

© Johanna Fugitt 2017