Note: If you watch / care remotely about the anime/manga Death Note, and don't know what happens to L and Watari in episode 25 in the anime or chapter 50-something in the manga, you may just want to scan this. 'Cause it's a pretty big spoiler.
The lighter was
intrictely carved.
Angels and devils
crosses and pentagrams
covered it.
A young Watari
running along a hall.
He arives at the bahtroom
only to stop and stare.
She flicks the top
up and down a few times,
then brings out
the sheaf of papers.
Watari stares at
the guresome grin spread
across the girl's throat.
She reaches up a hand to touch it
and turnes to him,
a thousand questions
in her eyes.
Watari has no answers.
Words cram the sheets
of simple lined paper.
As she burnes them,
she remembers the dead.
She watched as Watari
got progressively older
while she stayed 17.
They slowly drifted apart.
The mourners had already
left the graveyard.
She was alone
on the windy day.
The flame of the lighter
touched the corner
of the first sheet of paper.
She remembered visiting
Watari's orphanage,
and meeting three young boys.
She especially liked
the one with the
"L" name.
(She could never remember it's full form.)
She burns letters to those two boys
to the one she played with
and painfully watched grow old;
and the one she taught chess,
and many other things.
She burnes letters
to the dead,
hoping that the paper's ashes
will reach them in heaven.
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*sniff* Poor L and Watari.
