Tales of the Heart [Poetry by XaiakuX]

[Suicune's Fire]

I enjoyed the first one, but I wasn't sure if I was supposed to read the red text and then the blue immediately after, line after line. At first I thought it wasn't meant to be read that way, but after I finished the red one and moved onto the blue one, I was like, "Oh, oops, this corresponds." xD So I reread it. You spelled "awkward" wrongly. I liked the poems. ^^ It was a really cool (pun intended...for the blue font...) contrast to the other side.

For the second poem, for me, "hide" and "die" do not rhyme. Being really critical, in the first part, the line "The soul fading from the once bright" is slightly awkward because "the" would be capitalised on. For the poem as a whole, I enjoyed it. I did see the dark element as I read it. It sounds a lot to me like a war of some sort. o:

Nice poems, dude. ^^

[XaiakuX]

I enjoyed the first one, but I wasn't sure if I was supposed to read the red text and then the blue immediately after, line after line. At first I thought it wasn't meant to be read that way, but after I finished the red one and moved onto the blue one, I was like, "Oh, oops, this corresponds." xD So I reread it. You spelled "awkward" wrongly. I liked the poems. ^^ It was a really cool (pun intended...for the blue font...) contrast to the other side.

For the second poem, for me, "hide" and "die" do not rhyme. Being really critical, in the first part, the line "The soul fading from the once bright" is slightly awkward because "the" would be capitalised on. For the poem as a whole, I enjoyed it. I did see the dark element as I read it. It sounds a lot to me like a war of some sort. o:

Nice poems, dude. ^^

I've fixed all the typos. Considering I was on a laptop that didn't point out my typos as I made them (apparently ubuntu is a jerk), only having what... two? That's pretty solid writing. xD

[XaiakuX]

Nothing Is What It Seems

What is love but a dream
What is death but a nightmare
What is love but a nightmare
What is death but a dream
Valid questions with a single answer
Nothing is what it seems

What is love but a dream
A heart ready to burst open at the seam
A longing for acceptance we all feel
The desire to make that feeling real

What is death but a nightmare
Sinister figure with an icy glare
Skeletal frame with the scent of a corpse
Brings you closer by will or by force


What is love but a nightmare
What happens to the passion we share
Why is it already dead and gone
Shattered like darkness by the break of dawn

What is death but a dream
Grim and cold, yet so inviting
Does this entity wish me harm
Or is that part of its unnatural charm

A dream can be a nightmare
A nightmare can be a dream
Nothing lasts forever
Nothing is what it seems


I wrote this based on the title that I gave it. Because I feel like there are two side to everything. What you see and what you want, and what is real and what you end up with in the long run. Sometimes those things can end up being one and the same, other times it can be a horrible disaster waiting to happen. It's just one of those things I think about before I go to sleep.