Second Heart

Serpentine Wisdom

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Hold your rage, little brother

I know I was never the brother you wanted me to be

I don't think I ever could be.

And I can't change what already has been,

And maybe, just maybe, I don't want to

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Really, I don't know how to explain it

No matter how many times I wake from a restless sleep,

Still feeling the fire with which you cast me out

I never regret anything.

Maybe I deserved the holy fire, even if I was only following my destiny

Set out by a not-so-gentle god.

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Maybe I never truly saw you,

Maybe my smiles were all lies and my eyes too cold

Just like the heart in my chest.

That I can admit.

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But in spite of what I have said, you will always be a part of me

For it is your heart I listen to every night, when mine refuses to beat.

You are my second heart,

And maybe I for once will say it to your face.

So hold your rage, my heart, hold back your hate

For it is your heartbeat that keeps me alive.

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The stars will scream out your name

As they once screamed mine.

Your ambition will be the death of you, as mine was for me

That is what our God told me the day I fell.

But I will secure a gentler fate for you

In overthrowing the one that causes all our pain

Wait my brother and I will set you free.

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Author Note: I like to imagine that Lucifer cared for his baby brother n his own way. I haven't gotten to the end of the manga quite yet so I don't know all that will take place, only a few spoilers which is why this poem may not be cannon.