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Of Life and Seath |
At first he didn't notice her His eyes swept over the sea of others Their meeting was inevitable. Who could resist their end? He saw her from time to time When he took the others away As he laid his lips upon them Crystalline tears ran from her eyes Years passed in seconds for him He hardly noticed her rejection Until he came to the bedside of a wrinkled fellow His only company a girl pale and blooming She leaned to kiss his brow Soft hair fell across her face Elegant fingers stoked the old man's hand She told him it was too soon for his end Death felt a flicker of something Thick and green, and hot What would her hair feel like between his fingers That soft smile turned on him He watched her often now Waiting for the day she would join him When he would kiss her lips and guide her home But she seemed frozen in time, an immovable figure Her heart seemed to be given away He watched her fall Her eyes glowed as she held their hands He stole them away before their time The girl stopped taking partners Her light dimmed, but did not go out Her heart still sang and danced She didn't even think of him He raged at her constant refusal He was eternal He was feared He was craved Finally at the end of days She turned her eyes to him "I've seen you before At the bedside of those who have left I have seen you in the eyes of hunters And I've heard you in the gusts of a storm. It seems fitting that I should meet you now." Her voice pealed across the wasteland In her voice he heard green saplings A bee's buzzing wings in the summer sun It was alive and bright in a way that was more More than the dim din of humanity His robes stirred the dust As he reached out a hand Giving him a knowing grin She touched soft fingers to his cheek He closed his eyes and kissed her soft When his eyes opened she was gone |