Afterward: A Terza Rima Fanfiction (Poetry)

Canto Five: Onward.

The Poets board the carriage and Beatrice drives them into the heavens. The souls meet their destiny at last.

Beatrice held my weeping frame

And Virgil's teary-eyed compassion

As she gently helped him claim

His seat with me laid in his arms.

'Onward,' she whispered and held the reigns

So softly as to do no harm.

The song began once more to sound

My weary hand fell in his palm

And Virgil's fingers traced warm around

The delicate lines upon my hands.

And as the horses leapt and bound

Across the lush and grassy lands

My eyes closed softly with his touch

I was content within a man's

Warm embrace that made me feel enough

For the first time in a while.

And even as I write this fluff

My heart is warming with a smile.

Beatrice drove the carriage and

Suggested it would be a while

So we snuggled while she took command.

My gaze once more fell on his blue eyes

And there stood the moment I hadn't planned

My lips acted to their own demise.

In that sweet moment now I write

I still reside among the skies

Despite my love I still have sight

Of luscious green the heavens mould.

And all my life I thought it unright

To succumb to wishes my heart is told

Virgil's kiss was all that's right

And he was all I'd ever hold.

Beatrice's smile was slight

She had known it all along

And thus we rode into the night

Accompanied by angel's song.

Thanks to our dying we found what we are,

A boy and a boy kissing, home among stars.