A Dark Fairytale

It was a fairytale-

With unhappy endings, unkept promises,

Broken hearts, and wishes come true too late

To be good. And of star-crossed lovers

Iris and Gabrielle, it spun a tale-

Seeds of a love so strong and dark,

It survived Her wrath.

And yet it couldn’t find a way back

To the lovers, before it met the end of time.

1ris.

I have lost all I had,

In a war that had never been mine

To win. Yet I had fought

To save my life, or my love-

Hard to say which is which,

Since both to me are now lost.

Yet no angel wings I see ‘fore me,

No broken feather; twisted fate

Has mocked me again and changed

What had been written on the stars.

No heaven’s gate closed before me, nor hell’s fire

Me consume, but the vastness ahead,

So dreary so dark, I long to weep!

But there are no tears,

For I have no eyes,

Nor have I my body to hold me high,

The me that has been inside

So long: weeping, torn and all alone, it has loved

None but you! Yet Gabrielle you leave

Me time and again to fight fate.

And I wait for you, hoping as I do,

That you win at your war

With Her and return to me,

A mortal, an angel,

Whichever She chooses for you to be.

Fallen, broken, I long to see you

This one last time, and feel your heart

Beat with mine,

That I may sleep in peace,

And merge into this nothingness…

GabrieIIe

My wings bleed- twisted and torn

Feathers leave their marks

Behind, and I hope that you wait

Like you always do

For my return. For my victory

Is for you, and oh! Here you lie,

So cold, so white, your tears run dry

And a feeble heart that echoes mine

And beats to a stop.

I weep, I cry, do you hear me no more?

Her fall, my win is nothing without you

By my side! And yet now you leave

Me when I return, won in war!

Fate mocks my love

As you lie dead in defeat,

And though I will otherwise,

My heart will always beat…

Hey There

You see that compass, the charms

And the mug beneath the chair,

The creased re-read storybook?

Can you see it?

The woolly sweater?

The one with the hideous flowers

And gaudy sparkles?

It still kind of glitters!

Well don’t deny,

It was a safe haven.

You and I and the whole thing we did;

You guided, I followed.

You gave, I took

You showed, I saw.

And then we wore that sweater;

Well we took our turns to wear it.

And the roles switched.

You were what you used to be

As was I.

And it is pretty pointless to deny

That we haven’t been altered by time.

But I still know that you know

That we both know-

That the compass, the mug…

They’ll all wait.

No hurry.

We can take our time.

I have Held My Breath

I have held my breath

So long, so long!

Have you ever been in the dark

And heard whispers behind the walls?

Have you seen blackened depths of sea

Have you seen the waves drown

With every helpless tug of the moon?

I have tasted innocence

In the broken egg shells on mushy lands.

I have felt freedom locked up

In between the skull and hair-strands.

I breathe out, still breathe out.

Too soon, oh too soon!

The waves are crashing down on me this time,

With every tug of the moon.