Laying the Past to Rest (One Piece WA 2017)

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AN~ I edited/added a part before this one so read that first.

italicized are Sanji's thoughts
Regular is Zoro's thoughts.
This is a back and forth between their thoughts okay?
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Looking out this tinted window,
leaving the only city I've even know.
I realize.

I spent a lot of time swimming in shallow affections.

I gave people shards of me they didn't earn, and I let myself be hurt because I thought that was what I deserved.

Yet once I let go of the pieces that didn't fit my puzzle and the hate and the bitterness that I used as glue
to mend my broken heart.

I met you.

...

Remember when you were a child,
hiding behind the pantry door to spook your best friend?

But, they stayed away a little to long,
long enough for your giggles to die down
until it was only silence and
suddenly it just wasn't funny anymore?

That's how I feel about you.

...

If you never talk to me again
that's okay.
I know you promised to never leave me alone
all those times I cried into your chest,
and you kept your promise
since I was the one who left.

And

that's okay.
Because even though its sunny in May
that's when it hails the most,
and the most beautiful flowers
always seem to have the tiniest, sharpest
thorns.

...

When I toke care of you,
I always wondered why you let me touch you.
My hands always seemed to be covered
in the blood of someone I couldn't save.

Twice nightly,
I would scrub them
to remove the blood stuck deep in my pores.

I always wondered why you let me touch
you.
Me, the butcher,
and, you, the sun.

Laughing now, as tears run down my face,
how, how was I so blind?
Did I really forget about the void of darkness that makes the sun shine so bright?

Or did I choose to ignore?

...

You know when you're in your car,
and it's pouring down rain?

Just as your eyes give up searching
for a sanctuary
you see a bridge.
And as you drive under,
everything seems to stop, everything seems
silent,
and it's almost peaceful.
Then you finally get from under the bridge,
and hits you a little hard and a little faster
than before?

You were my bridge.

And in this new city, away from you,
it's storming
with thunder and lightning
made of everything thats ever kept me up at night.