My goal in life is to have the largest collection of bad aurikku poetry anywhere. Come to think of it, I think I already do.

Bits of this (or maybe the whole thing..) were inspired by Rikku's songs "Hadashi no Kiseki" and "Without you". I don't know if I'm evil or not. If you've read the lyrics to those songs, then you can tell me.

Thinking of you.

If I could walk across that rainbow,

Would I come to that faraway land

Where you live?

Would I find a place I only half believed in

Inhabited by my memories of you?

What if memories really are only memories?

I hate those words I spoke so long ago.

Long ago when you were still here

And I didn't know.

Never thought to tell you.

It seemed you would be around forever,

Like everything else.

How was I to know

That you were about as solid as that rainbow,

And just as full of lights.

Dead funeral pyre lights.

You could have told me.

Maybe then I wouldn't be missing you…

Maybe I'd be remembering all the times I hated you

Instead of remembering you fondly,

You big meanie…

You aren't just a memory.

Someday I'll cross the rainbow too,

And walk among nameless flowers

With ghostly scents.

And I'll say the words I only had courage enough

To write in the sand

Down near the water where the tide

Swiftly swept them away.

I wonder if you're watching me from beyond the rainbow

And laughing.

Somehow it wouldn't surprise me,

You big meanie.