5 minute poetry

[Cloud Strife]

So many trials she's seen me through.
Now the final one looms in my view.
As always she wants to come with me,
But for this last trial, it cannot be.

She cries to me protests my choice.
I look at her, and raise my voice.
I smile at her, say "Don't you see?
I need you here to wait for me!"

"If we go in, we won't come out...
But don't look away, don't be in doubt."
She looks into my eyes, she smiles and nods.
With her to return to, I will beat the odds.