This duel was an honor, the best of my life.
A champion doesn't belong on his knees,
For you've set me free of my soul-shackled strife,
And together we've realized our destinies.
Forever I waited, trapped, clueless, alone,
Until I found you and you opened the way.
We've proven we're ready to be on our own,
And all that we've been through comes down to today.
And when first I met you, you couldn't have been shyer,
A lost, lonely soul who wished just for a friend,
But I've known you to stand strong through shadows and fire,
And I knew I could trust you to duel to the end.
And although I'm gone, I will always be here;
If ever you need me, just look in a mirror.

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Background:

Who says dactyls are for villains? This has fourteen lines, three quatrains and a couplet, but it's not a true sonnet because the lines are in dactylic tetrameter, not iambic pentameter. I wrote it for Atem (and by "for" I mean "from the perspective of") a few months after the Final Duel.