By sassy
Date: 2005 Oct 10
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Heathcliff & Cathy

Heathcliff stalked the moors
larger than life, uncontainable
pride, passion, love drove him
madder than he would have been
if he had never met her.  
A dark, brooding, romantic hero,
how many girls who encountered
him would not think they could
change him?  How many
would not think they could heal
his haunted heart?

Cathy was the bitch that
resides in all of us.
She thought she would
have her cake and eat it too.
Heathcliff, Linton, she'd hold
their hearts on a string and play
with them as she liked.
When she could no longer
puppet him from this mortal coil
she tormented her love from beyond,
icy fingers on the windowsill,
icy grasp on his heart.

And yet we rejoice when,
reunited in death, their ghosts
race joyfully over the moors
together.