Have you any notion what you aim for?
Would you dare to hope, if e'er you could,
If you knew you'd fail at what you came for,
As I can know, would you run like you should?
Or will you stay, despite all odds against you,
And triumph o'er them all with honor bold,
Showing that no cheat or scare can best you,
And, as I hope, discover power gold?
Well, little Yugi? Will you play my game then?
It's not as though you'd dream to walk away.
Not when the world needs your help, and not when
Your friends and family are my helpless prey.
Will you triumph, will you dare to challenge me?
We both know that it's so: we soon shall see.

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Background:

When Duelist Kingdom reran in 2007-08, I really understood it on a deeper level. I began following the show with some Battle City reruns in the summer of 2004, and my first new episodes were Waking the Dragons; to me, Duelist Kingdom was a well-known legend, but not a set of living, breathing moments yet. I didn't even get to see it until later that fall. But now, understanding what I did by 2007-08, I got Duelist Kingdom in my bones. I wrote this sonnet for Pegasus during that time, along with another one. Pegasus seems to lend himself to poetry.