Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26444017-20190622004216

I, an ancient force

Grim fate in ghastly form

Know not of remorse

My presence feared, like a storm

But today, my heart did warm

Today, he was there

He, the Lord's immortal slave

He with snow white hair

His face falteringly brave

As he knelt before her grave

Marred with scars of burn

Nothing I’d not seen before

Only just returned

Survivor of Hellish war

Still my shade darkens his door

“When?” he deigned to ask

I approached, slowly walking

“Just two fortnights past.”

He felt that I’d been stalking

And lured me into talking

“She knew my touch, death

“And no more she could delay.

“She breathed her last breath

“Her last exhale spent to say

“Just one word, and passed away.”

“I thought so, reaper.

“The moment I crossed the sea

“You sought to keep her.

“Now her spirit, held by thee

“You use to barter with me.”

I knew what he meant

The cat and mouse game of chase

All my patience spent

On this man who’d won the race

One I never could debase

He’d not fight for life

He instead chose to parley

“If you save my wife

“I swear on this grave today

“My soul, I shall trade away.”

He asked nothing new

Nothing I’d not heard before

Nothing I would do

“A live corpse, we’d both abhor.

“Your wife shall rest evermore.”

He stood from the plot

“Again, this is what you do?

“My first, left to rot.

“My second, her heart run through

“By a blade thrust forth by you.

“How long must it be?

“One hundred? One thousand years?

“When will I be free?

“Forced not to shed mourning tears

“For bride whose death ever nears?”

“We are not like them.

“Our hearts beat not as theirs did.

“We’ve no requiem

“No way for our lives to rid.

“Our demise, the Lord forbids.”

“You lie, horrid one.

“God has given you a way

“To cease what’s been done.

“This immortal you can slay.

“Give my soul to her today.

“No one else can do.

“This gift only you possess.

“You know my words true.

“I beg of you, without duress

“Cut free the Lord’s tangled mess.”

He knew my power

Nothing I’d not known before

His wilted flower

I could save, her life restore

And give her his shining core

I would tell him ‘No’

As I’d done centuries past

And away he’d go

Ever-longer life would last

Ever-darker shadow cast

But I could not sway

He’d not take knee, nor head bow

His fire blazed today

Bright before, brightest now

He would not forsake his vow

His strength staggered me

Something I’d not felt before

So it came to be

For my grasp he had implored

And I warned what was in store

“Know the consequence.

“Your soul, she can never sell

“And forever hence

“Holy Lord shall know it well

“His prized angel falls to Hell.

He took time for thought

“I have just one last request.”

I knew what he sought

“With her breath from falling chest

“Her last word, in life, was ‘Rest’.

“A request perhaps.

“A command of you and I

”‘Fore her life elapsed

“She may wish for you to fly

“And I, in the shadows, lie.”

Silenced for a time

He considered what to say

Locked his eyes with mine

Bowed his head, as if to pray

Spread his wings, and flew away

Now, I sit and write

Alone with her in this glen

Long into the night

Thinking of my angel friend

And if e’er our lives will end 