A Lovers Journey

I was thinking about a story in my head that i've been wanting to write for some time. This poem is a piece of that that helped me think.

The rain came down

Cold as ice

Upon the city

Filled with lights

Empty streets

No one home

A city of ghosts

A shadow of dust and bone

Daxx walks the road

On which cars stand still

Rusting away

And up his spine ran chills

How after all these years

This is where he’d be

Searching for a lost love

Locked away for centuries

The lives they lived

The lives they took

Apon a long and weary path

It saddened him when he dared to look

Upon the memories

Of what they did

The lives they ended

All silently slid

Behind his eyes

Weary and sad

They never wanted it this way

To turn out bad

He sighed a mournful tone

And started walking once more

Twards a future that was certain

The final chapter of a bloody war

Not one fought between armies

Not one the galaxy will know

Their lives will not be remembered

And he was damned glad it was so

For the things he’d done

Fighting alongside the man he loves

Were not what they wanted

Where life had pushed and shoved

He remembered back then

When they thought they were free

From the grasp of war

Of the gang leaders fucked up tyranny

He rememberd with tears

How happy Malshaunt had been

For it to finally be over

Not knowing it had yet to begin

They sold their souls

Resigned to their task

Figuring it wouldn’t take too long

And they would be happy at last

Daxx smiled a smile

Full of a thousand tears

How long ago had that been?

How many long lost years?

He realized he didn’t remember

How long they’d been condemned

To a fight they unintentionally started

To an all but definife end

His hopes of happiness

Of a life of joy

With the man he loves

Met as only a boy

Were long ago cast aside

As a mere pipe dream

Never to happen

Not ever it seemed

He wanders the streets

Glass broken like sunken eyes

Gaping from buildings

Speaking of their final loud cries

His worn out cloths

Threadbare and thin

Hung around him like a dark shroud

Plastered to his too pale skin

For the clouds above

Hadn’t cleared in years

They’re iron grey color

Shedding countless tears

Daxx smiled and he knew

Malshaunt would love the rain

Which then made him cry silently

As he pictured his pain

Locked in a cage

Where he had been detained

For centuries on end

His life extended by their pact

Until but a shell remained

They all were shells

Of who they once were

Morality forgotten

Long lost on a path

Both dark and perverse

They weren’t killers

Back before this began

Now the blood of millions

Stained their weary hands

When this was over

And he knew it was fast coming to an end

The darkness of death

Was their final godsend

They had wanted to live

Forever together always

Now they looked forward

To the end of their days

For they hated and raged

With world weary eyes

Thinking of both daemon and angels

Both whom they despise

Malshaunt looked up

In a cell miles away

His eyes long gone blind

The implants rusted away

He was once filled with rage

At what he saw was an abhorrent injustice

Now he simply thought

It is what it is

He knew that his lover

Was coming at last

To open the door

Locked shut centuries past

He knew he should be happy

To dance in the rain

But he was simply resigned

His face filled with sorrow and pain

His love of his life

Whom was with him when it all began

Was coming closer

And he stretched out his hand

He could not see

The walls of concrete and stone

But he knew they were as before

Sitting in silence and alone

He remembered with amusement

How it had all began

How he had first died

And the pact he had signed

The him that did not understand

He wanted to live forever

So the pact he had signed

He now shook his head

Disgusted and resigned

Yet he knew if he could change

The choices he’d made

He’d do it all again

Living on the edge of a razor blade

For he knew in his mind

Knew with a heavy heart

Daxx he would not know

Had this fucked up journey didn’t start

That alone to him

Was worth the anguish and pain

He knew he should feel bad

But was not at all ashamed

Of the things he’d done

Murdered and shook with rage unrestrained

His humanity forgotten

Along the long forgotten way

He was saddened and weary

Filled with anguish and pain

To know he wasn’t sorry

In any shape or way

He did what he did

To live his endless days

Without remorse

Untill he was locked away

His friends all dead

Daxx his final companion

They’re memories thrown

Into the vast dark canyon

That he now saw as

His mind as it is now

He smiled with a sigh

Soon it would be over

And their memories could sleep safe and sound

And so the lovers waited

To be reunited once again

So that their long and weary journey

Would come to an end