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Bookman's Heart

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Although I have no heart
Why does my heart go out to you?
Loyal with all the nothing in my chest
It beats like my fist upon this desk
As I turn my friends into nothing more
Than ink upon this paper.

Although I have no heart,
My heart still aches for you,
My comrades as we fight this war,
Paper and ink and nothing more
And yet I still smile for you.

Ink runs through these veins of mine,
Black as the things we fight,
Darker than those searching eyes,
Uniformed clergymen,
Smiling lies.

I'm not the fool you would think me
Just push the mask aside,
Look inside,
And no matter how you claw around,
You will never find---

---my heart.
Trapped inside a cage of ink,
Ink and parchment and dust,
I left my heart inside the book,
In which I write day to day, night to night,
And seal your fate away in binding,
And leave my heart to keep my faith,
In the lifestyle I will make.

Rip out this bleeding heart of mine,
No matter how I try,
This wretched thing won't go away,
I claw my chest and try to find,
Hook my claws in the thing that binds
Me
             To
                          You.
No matter how I search,
No matter how I lie,
My heart, it lies with you,
My friends,
My deathwish.
An Impromptu study on the Bookman Jr.'s struggles between loyalty to his loved ones and loyalty to his calling.
I was just puttering around on the internet and thinking about nothing in particular
when suddenly, I decided out of the blue that I was going to write something
and that it would be about Rabi/Lavi, Bookman Jr.
And then the words just sorta came from there.
I'm not sure if it's good or not
but I thought that this particular character could get a bit more attention,
not as the fool and jokester,
but as someone with a sad story as well.
It seems a lot of people focus on Allen Walker or Kanda Yuu, or even Linali Li,
but I had to wonder,
how many really respected this particular character for how he struggles?
Bookmen have no heart
and yet his still exists within the hands of his friends.
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CeeDee23's avatar
OH MAI GAWD SO SAD!!!!! :cries: