Disclaimer: I don't own Shadow nor Maria
I usually dont' do the whole rhyming thing in my poetry, but this time it just turned out that way. So I hope ya'll like it, i might be adding more poetry relating to Sonic the Hedgehog and other charries in teh future. As for the italicized lines, that serves to seperate each stanza and has no additional meaning to this poem.
Little baby Shadow, you slept soundly in your crib
Slumbering so peacefully
With food still on your bib.
I watched your chest rise and fall,
As I stroked your tiny head
and then I left you lying there
on your little bed.
The days then passed too quickly
And my teaching was all for naught
Because as I stand here watching,
I see the evil you brought.
You're not the Shadow I once knew
You're tinged with so much hatred.
I wish I could fill you once again
With goodness unabated.
But as I lie in death's cold embrace
And guard you every night
Listening to your troubled dreams
As you squirm and cry in fright
I know you don't want to be this way
As you constantly struggle to remember
How your life used to be
Before your soul's December.
And once again I know there's hope
Even though I am dead
Because your heart still knows me
And how for you I bled.
So Shadow, listen closely,
To what I have to say:
Though your journey seems impossible,
There will always be a way.