DISTANCE
by Paula Tougaw

*Zel-Lina Shrine: poems* e-mail author* credits*

Note: Lina's parts are red; Zel's parts are blue.


Sometimes I what you think about.
Besides your cure, I mean.
Eyes so distant,
Mourning, sorrows, death of a soul,
How lost inside you must be.
Open up to me, let lose you fear,
Let me see.

I don't want you to get too close,
Else you learn the monster
I am within.
Your eyes pan across mine
And I become distant,thinking and hoping,
yet frightened of you.
Let me be.

Why do you shy away from my touch?
I try to get close, but you
only want to be distant.
Why so distant, my love and heart?
I see that hope within your eyes,
Yet you still push me away.
Let me know.

I'll be hurt by you, I know,
Because fire will always melt ice,
and fire can only burn
I may break down,
I may fall apart.
Within that fiery grasp,
Let me go.

But I only want to help you!

How I wish you could.

But I only want to hold you!

How I wish you would.

Then why do you push me away?
I love you as I know you love me.

Because I know too well.
Those who I let inside
End up as lost as me.


Paula: What do you think? Angsty, I know, but I'm proud of it.

CREDITS

  • "The Slayers" is the product of Software Sculptors, Tokyo TV, Enoki Films Co., Ltd., Monthly Dragon Magazine, Weekly Comic Dragon, Fujimi Books, Hajime Kanzaka, Rui Araizumi, and Kadokawa Publishing Co., Ltd.