Subject: [Poem] p
From: "Nikholas F. Toledo" <niftol@i-manila.com.ph>
Date: 4/22/1997, 10:45 AM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

Hello.

Just for a minor change of pace, I'm reposting this.  (Yes.  Another repost)

I posted this on FFML2 first.  (Thanks to Ben Franz, I forgot to say.)  I 
thought to send here a poem I wrote a while back, I think it was after 
OAV 3 of Ranma 1/2.

Switch, keeper of the zoo


        Just as the skyline changes as the day descends,
        I do the same.
        My heart drifts towards thoughts of you
        as my feet carry me closer and closer.
        And in the heavy mists of early night enshrouding,
        I am lost.
        But I do not fear.
        For in this haze, as sure as change will always follow change,
        I will soon be with you.
        For my feet know the way to your door,
        and my heart knows the way to yours.

        Have you ever felt so drawn into another,
        that when the mind entreaties to forget,
        the heart is not as kind?
        My feet still carry, as far away from you as I'd need to be,
        as near to your side as I'd like to be.
        As much as you have found some other,
        I cannot convince my wand'ring heart to leave,
        nor can I confuse my feet to lead me astray.

        Just as the skyline changes as the rain descends,
        I do the same.
        My heart drifts towards thoughts of you,
        and my need carries me closer and closer.
        And in the heavy curse of deception enshrouding,
        I am lost.
        For in this haze, as sure as change will always follow change,
        I will never be with you.
        For my heart knows not the way to tell you,
        and your heart knows not to understand.