07-Jan-2004
Title: L2 Requiem
Author: RurouniTriv
Notes: Okay, I was stuck in a car for hours yesterday, and did a bunch of stuff that's of little interest to the board. ^^; But one of the things that I did which is definitely GW-related was a poem based on "Requiem for the Sinners" - which I haven't seen a new chapter of for quite a while. Enjoy! Or, ah, not... it's not one of my lighter & fluffier poems.
Sing a requiem for those who've sinned
Write all their eulogies down
Say a prayer for those who don't care
General Maxwell's come to town
When everyone else had abandoned us
And left us to die just like dogs
He came back, our own Shinigami,
And asked us to die for a cause
He'd tried for long years to convince them
To give to L2 food and aid
But they laughed at him and denied us
And war is the price that they'll pay
They forgot the stock that he came from
He's L2 in blood and in bone
We might not have been Gundam pilots
But we made the blade that G honed
The slums of L2 form souls into iron
And he's forged that iron to steel
Earth's been at the top of the heap for too long
And now it's our turn at the wheel
Us rats of L2 have been trapped for too long
And none know more clearly than he
How fiercely a street-rat of L2 can fight
When we see a chance to win free
We won't die on the streets with our bones all picked clean
Our own pride demands that we fight
So what if there's no chance we'll win in the end?
We'll have company in Death's dark night.
(:./rt/poem1)
