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Summary: OneShot Poem Pre DoBS. Zuko's POV. The poem is supposed to be very symbolic, the meanings are at the end of the chapter.

A/N: I got bored in class today and wrote this.

Battles raging overhead
I'm crawling on the ground
Looking for a place to hide
From this ear-splitting sound.
The screams are getting louder
The ground is covered in blood
Death is what surrounds me
In a painful flood.
I could have saved those people
I might have done some right
But I turned my face on them
Walking into fire-light.
And now I'm in the middle
I can't tell right from wrong
Should I join the ones I'm meant to save?
Or take the path I've traveled, all along?

When Zuko says people he should have saved, it's really a general statement. I didn't have specific people in mind, it's just that, throughout Avatar, Zuko had a lot of chances to do something good, and he didn't.

The meaning of blood and death, though could mean real blood and real death (depending on how you think the battle during Black Sun could have happened), is really symbolic for his father and sister (death) and destruction and pain (blood).

The meaning of fire-light is quite literally fire, as in firebenders like his father and sister.

The End