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Akira Kurusu :
I love you
but you will not love me back
for I am what you
hate the most
I am what you wished to become
Someone who others love
Someone who loves
Someone with hope
Someone with cares
And desires
Someone whom other people adore
Others care about
You grew bitter
You feared
You killed
You hated
You despised
All you were ever missing
Was someone who you could love
Someone who would love you
With no strings attached
Not a give-and-take
Not a one sided love poem
Someone who you could spend days with
Through boring calls
And destructive fights
Through the wind and rain
The pain and torment
Someone who you knew could love you
Someone to tell you it was okay
And that being in pain
Was not a weakness
That being sad
Or “broken”
Or hateful
Or wrong
Was okay
That you didn’t need to be perfect
That you could just be human.
We could be human together.
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Goro Akechi :
Why do you search after me?
What do I bring to the table for you?
You say you love me
But I have done nothing to be loved
I have simply existed
Let myself live in your warm presence
I’ve done nothing to deserve love
yet you are here
telling me you love me
Why?
I have killed
Stolen
Lied
I even tried to kill you
But you don’t seem to care about that
You just come and tell me I’m worth it
That you would “do anything” for me
I don’t think that's true
There's a lot of things that I
Would do for you
That you should not do for me
There's so many things you should find disturbing about me
So many things to hate and so many things to be angry about
Yet you come here and tell me I’m a good person
I’m not a good person
I know this
I’ve been told by others
By your friends
By my father
By my “friends”
By the people I killed
But you come here, and tell me that it’s okay
That I deserve love
That we can be human
Maybe we can
But that doesn’t fix what I’ve done
People still hate me
People still want me dead more than they want you alive
How are you so happy about this outcome?
How are you so carefree about what people think?
Do you not fear their stares
Their voices
Their sneers and jabs
The things they say behind your back
And to the mask you’ve welled up behind
How do you look to the future in the face of death?
How do you keep your hopes so high, even when the whole world is against you?
How do you do all of these things that make you
You
Please
Tell me
Teach me how to be human.
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Akira Kurusu :
You don’t need to bring anything to the table
You simply need to be yourself
You know I don’t mean the “detective prince” you masked yourself with
All those years ago
You know I love you
Not what you try to be
I want to be able to love you
In all your teenage angst and pain
I want to sit with you while you ramble about chess
Be there while you sip coffee and eat curry
Cuddle together on cold winter nights
I don’t want you to have to trade for my love
My love is not a reward
It is simply what I feel
There’s nothing you can do to stop me from loving you.
You may say you aren’t deserving of love
You may say you can’t love anyone
You may say that I only want to see the side of you that you show the public
But we both know that’s not true
You can be scared
Or angry
Or sad
I just want to be there to help
To help you become human
I can teach you to become human for as long as it takes
for you to become happy.