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Izuku alone
Wanting nothing but to be
free and unrestrained
nothing he would be
dead as the wooden puppet
He was named after
Deku, the useless
and so he, the Wooden boy
would never live true
only for seconds
alive he would breathe freely
without pain and grief
But back to nothing
he would stay unmoved
Wanting for more
but that wanting grew
so the heart of wooden gold
a Devil's deal struck
although his demands
cruelty unmatched,
there was only hope
in the wooden heart
for soon it would be only
fresh and blood, and love
but for his actions
fear and pain his only friends
he was but nothing
a scared child, anguish
his companion, nothing but
hatred is his heart
all for a wanting
he sacrificed everything
for the pain of life
he looks back, tear-eyed
there is nothing but regret
in those seafoam eyes
for these wooden souls
nothing is worth demon deals
neither life nor heart