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By Galadrial Date: 2001 Sep 25 Comment on this Work [[2001.09.25.07.08.5971]] |
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I learned how to live with a heart in silent stasis words without sound, tender without touch, and all the love in me left fallow the field unseeded for a season while you went to battle your demons. I told you that you did not need that spirit journey--- there are always devils behind every rock, and they will find you without you having to seek them. And though you did not say I saw the armor you laid aside, and while I did not know the date I knew one morning I would wake, and would find your shield, your sword, the mail, and you had gone for a soldier. And my heart stood apart, not of its own wishing or desire but because it knew you would ride off to seek your personal grail with not even a goodbye for comfort. And if you would return, would it even know the man who had melded to my spirit, taken my flesh, and made me bride to the Dawn? And now I wonder looking down the dusty path stirring in the distance with blurry sciroccos if the stirring sands will trumpet your coming. I hope you found what it was you sought. Only now, this heart regards you less a hero and more a man, and does not know how to greet you. |