iwaizumi hajime/oikawa tooru, haikyuu!!
major character death, implied drowning, the story of icarus
poetry, 33 lines

you say,
you promise won't fly too low,
won't fly to high.
will remain in the middle. safe.

but then,
but then before either of us knows it,
you're soaring toward the sun.
higher, higher, higher.

(and i can't blame you.
i can't, because there's no one brighter,
no one who fits better up in the sky,
accompanying the sun.)

but your mistake,
your pride and thoughtless infalibility
gets the better of you.
and you fall.

fall,
fall,
fall down.

and i try.
i try to save you.
to pull your sinking body,
from the sea.

(but it's too late.)

and as i pull your heavy body to shore,
cradle you in my arms--
tears threatening to fall,
as i curse this turn of events--
i know,

i know i want to remember you
as you were in those last moments,
bright, as close to the sun as anyone could get.
and that's the memory i'll keep close to forget about the rest.