``I Will Take Your Breath Away [OPEN]

[Amri Amatzya]

I will not bow, I will not break
I will shut the world away
I will not fall, I will not fade
I will take your breath away

Amri had finally acquired some rose tea, and he held it in a little maroon velvet pouch in his hand. It had taken him quite some time to get it, but more because he was a busy man rather than a shortage of it. He fiddled with it in his hand until he found a good place on the side of a hill to shove Banryuu into the ground. From this mountain, he could see all around, fierce eyes taking it all in with angry indifference. None of this made sense, from the tea in his hand or the expression on his face.

He dumped the contents of the little bag onto his left hand and proceeded to crunch up the dried buds into smaller little bits. Each time he felt the petals between his fingers it sent a pang up his spine which made him do it more viciously. When the pile was reduced to fine little bits, Amri held it up to his face, considering it closely, and without really planning to, kissed the dried petals. Then, as he had planned to, he blew it all away, watching the flakes float through the air and gently fall to the air hundreds of feet below him.

With a grunt, he turned swiftly back around and pulled Banryuu out of the ground to let it fall with a thud on his right shoulder where it usually rested. Now that it was done, it was done, and it would be left behind like everything that he wasn't doing at that precise second. The past was of no concern because it was the present that you lived in, a fleeting second that belonged to him and him alone. No one could decide what he did at any point in time, because it was his choice, and right now, it was his choice to forget.

Now the dark begins to rise
Save your breath, it's far from over
Leave the lost and dead behind
Now's your chance to run for cover
I don't want to change the world
I just want to leave it colder
Light the fuse and burn it up
Take the path that leads to nowhere
All is lost again, but I'm not giving in