InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Inspired Poetry ❯ Omoi ( Chapter 1 )

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Okay. This is a found poem (obviously. . . . ). For those who don’t know what a found poem is, it is when you take lines of prose or poems from a few sources and make it into a new poem (giving credit to your sources, of course). I’ve tweaked one or two of the lines, mostly tenses, I think. This was a major pain to get together, but I’m happy with it for now, even if it might get revised due to one or two stanzas that don’t sound right. Song credits at the bottom. If you have a lot of time on your hands, figure out what lines go to which song and email me your guess.


“Omoi,” by Besa

The hearts they turn
They turn away
My mother’s people were
Ashamed of me
Imperfect and incomplete
Half-breed -- All I ever heard
It makes me think there must be
Something wrong with me

Time is passing
The days
They turn into years
A thousand lost forevers
Could this be real?
When everything feels like you’re dreaming
You bleed just to know you’re alive

I don’t want the world to see me
I don’t think that they’d understand
Both sides were against me
Since the day I was born

Hopeless
As my dream dies
As the time flies
Love a lost illusion
A lie is always
Sweetly hiding in the words

You stumbled in and bumped your head
If not for me then you’d be dead
I hold my courage and pieces of my smile
If you accept my gaze
As I watch over you
And don’t let go of my hand, I can do anything
You took for granted
All the times
I never let you down
But stay a while and maybe then you’ll see
A different side of me
And this is how you remind me
Of what I really am
Call my name and save me from the dark
I see, but deep within
Is utter blindness
Please teach me how to live

I’ve been sleeping a thousand years
It seems
I was lost
Now I’m found
My life was ten shades of gray
But you made me feel alive
When I was almost dead
The smartest thing you ever did
Was take a chance with me
We turn the darkness into light

What can I tell you?
I’m sure that the heart
I left behind
Still lies hidden in the deep, deep forest
But the feeling that I offer you is so strong
To keep you by my side
I won’t stop
I won’t give in to anyone
We’ll search for
And collect
The fragments of our dreams
Even if we’re sad
We can probably still find them now

There’s just one thing that --
No
I’ll never tell
Because the words are so
Weak against time

With all that I’ve done wrong
I must have done something right
I don’t deserve you
Unless it’s some
Kind of hidden message
So make the best of this
And don’t ask why
It’s now or never
In this world so full of fear
Full of rage and lies
Is what I have imagined
Within this twilight
More than my hands
Can accomplish?

I absolutely love her
When she smiles
It seems like there’s
No way out of this
For me
Knew a better life existed
But thought that I missed it
If you choose not to decide
Time grabs you
Directs you where to go

I’ve found you find strength
In your moments of weakness
You get me
When none of the pieces fit
You make sense of it
But I never dreamed home would end up
Where I don’t belong

When nobody understands
You come and take the chance
Each one is different but they’re
Always the same
They mean me no harm
But it’s time that I face it
They will never allow me to change

Though what I used to be
I still depend upon
If I never knew you
I’d have lived my whole life through
Empty as the sky
Never knowing why
Lost forever
If I never knew you
And I know there’s no guarantees
But I’m not alone

This too shall pass
Every new beginning comes from
Some other beginning’s end
Where shall we go?
We continue our journey
And endless dream
I want to chase after it
Without letting go of it
Forever

Can’t you see that it’s
Impossible to choose?
No, there’s no making sense of it
Everywhere I go
I’m bound to lose

I think I’ve already lost you
I think you’re already gone

Time for you to go out to the
Places you will be from

The day I knew you would leave. . .

You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
Now I’m bound by the life
You left behind
I’ve tried so hard to tell myself
That you’re gone
I’ve been looking back to find
Where I went wrong
And maybe forgiveness will find me
Somewhere down this road

There comes a time in everyone’s life
When all you can see
Are the years passing by
And I have made up my mind
That those days are gone

Love lost was found
Night turns to day
No change of heart
A change in me


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Songs used: (Title, Artist)

Change the World, V6
Fukai Mori, Do As Infinity
I Am, Hitomi
My Will, Dream
No More Words, Ayumi Hamasaki
Owarinai Yume, Nanase Aikawa
Shinjitsu no Shi, Do As Infinity
If I Can’t Love Her, Beauty and the Beast
A Change In Me, Beauty and the Beast
I’ll Never Tell, Buffy the Musical
Iris, Goo Goo Dolls
Bring Me to Life, Evanescence
My Immortal, Evanescence
Kryptonite, 3 Doors Down
Time Stands Still, All-American Rejects
Butterfly, Crazy Town
Angel, Shaggy
Butterfly Kisses, Bob Carlisle
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life), Green Day
It’s My Life, Jon Bon Jovi
If I Never Knew You, Jon Secada
If You’re Gone, Matchbox 20
Last Beautiful Girl, Matchbox 20
Unwell, Matchbox 20
Closing Time, Semisonic
How You Remind Me, Nickelback
Story of a Girl, Third Eye Blind
Too Much Love Will Kill You, Queen
Free Will, Rush
Waterfalls, TLC
Half Breed, Cher
You Get Me, Michelle Branch
I’m Movin’ On, Rascal Flatts

All translations from animelyrics.com