A/N: Written for the A Prompt a Month Poetry Contest on the Poetry Craze (link's on my profile if you're interested in poetry). The prompt was to write about a relationship that wasn't romance, sort of to counteract the Valentine vibes wandering around. :D A human/pet relationship qualified, and Mayu's my favourite Elfen Lied character too. :D

Mayu and Wanta

No matter how she sullied it,
his fur would always become clean again.

They'd run along the beach and be washed
by the salty waves, her tears drying
and sinking into her face
with the stray droplets he shook her way

But she wouldn't be clean, not completely,
until she could spill her heart to him and he could lick
her face and take the scars away

Because the ocean didn't have a heart like his;
the ocean washed him clean, but it was he
who could wash away her dirt.