Upsloping [Hikaru no Go, guess the chara]

[fromastudio]

Upsloping
Notes: Poor excuse for a poem, no it is not exactly very good yes it repeats like every hikago theme I have written ever no I don't feel like rewriting it to make it less of a poor excuse.
Characters: Wildly OOC for the character whose POV it was supposed to be - voice ended up being that of another character altogether (to my ear anyway).



Because this is a maze
Because we are lost and found
Because I will drown (you will drown)
in all our lines

If everything is certain,
then why am I afraid?
This is the dance, the sequence
remodelling
white matter along
unnatural paths --
for our nets and ladders are manmade.
Gods did not decree them.
Evolution cannot find them.
Only the mind training itself,
hour beyond hour,
click by click.

These are the steps and the ways.
A game requires two,
But a journey, as many as you want.
If there are a million miles to go
then let us pause and drink together.
And if I am chasing your back,
why then, we are on the same road,
and our hearts are parallel
and it is enough to be
steadily in the same direction.

And what you are to me
I am to you
and is not infinite,
though legion and mystery.
Here is no need,
for though I haul you over slope and scree
to fall behind --
yet our grasped hands are impermanent.
(But always there. Ask. Tell.
How can we otherwise know? The chasm
between mother and father, child and parent
gapes deep

like the distance of nineteen rows
our only fords, words and stones.)
Not forever but all our lives.
Together is implied.

Walk. I too will walk.