whispers from the heart

we shall return

You came to me like an autumn breeze,

Swiftly, slightly, all too suddenly,

But comforting, in a twisted sort of way,

I knew you'd leave, and I'd live to see the day,

When death herself kisses your face,

When you're forced to quit halfway through the race,

Is it tender and melancholy?

Or is it desperate and frightening?

I'm sure you, with the warnings you were given,

Thought long and hard about the life you were living,

And what the end would taste like,

When she finally comes to take your life.

And now the thoughts have passed onto me,

Your lover without a lover, with no other half to be,

Instantly, I knew I had met a matching soul,

We knew the end was near,

And yet we could not let go of the breaking ropes

Of fate, if that's what it was,

We could not stand in the face of such greater forces,

Larger than us,

Smaller than love.

My one and only true love,

How did it feel?

When you were caressed by her rough hands,

And serenaded by her low voice,

Were you ready for it - ready to let go?

Ready to leave behind everything you've ever known?

Were you ready, already ready for me to be left here alone?

I knew it too, yet the weight of your absence 

Crushes me like the stones

My heart was once made of,

Before you turned it into gold with your undying love.

And now, like all things must, we have returned home.

And, like all things must, we have returned alone.

My love, you are freed from all the agony and pain,

And to my stone-cold solemn self I shall return to again,

Without your smile radiating its gold hues, I know only darkness and rain,

This is but punishment for playing a forbidden game,

And like all things, we shall return to who we were before we lost ourselves in the flames.

And we shall return to our rightful place.