A/N- I can't remember who requested this but here you go! Sorry it's late
When our eyes met each others'.
When our hearts fluttered in that one heartbeat.
When I came to Wales and met the most beautiful person in the world, whose star no longer shines.
When we smiled at each other each and every night, when we smiled and told each other stories. When I played the piano and you sung the hymns, your voice as bright and clear as a bird's. When you taught the children to sing, too. Spending time with you felt like riding on a breeze, with your red hair stretched behind you and your hand in mine.
When we climbed up the hill early to see the sunrise. The pale dawn light in your eyes, and in my heart. When one day you went to school and I went to work. When one day you disappeared beneath the black river.
When the tip built off our ignorance drowned you all. They never found you again, I tried so hard. I'm sorry I lived. I'm sorry I didn't try. Maybe if I ask, when the time comes my grave will be next to yours.
I know you don't want me to be sorry, I can't forget you. I can't forget the last moments we shared, walking up the hill in the fog. Do you remember? When we held hands for the last time, when you smiled and told me not to worry.
If you had lived and I had died, what would you say? Would you miss me like I missed you? Would you know that I was happy that you got to see another day, and another after that?
When I walk past I can hear you singing, do you know? I remember it so clearly it's like you're right beside me, Mairin. All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small. What happened to the bright things in this world? A flower can't grow in a flood. The village you loved is down to a mass of gloomy figures and me.
Maybe the last bright thing in my world was you. Maybe that's why I can't notice anything bright anymore, because there isn't the light to see it. But if it means you will be happy, I can see in darkness.
A/N- Yes this is based of the Aberfan Disaster. Honestly I feel like this was rushed, unworthy of being read and generally terrible but it's the first time I've updated something other than my rant book.
