Shadow-Lovers Promise

 

Awakening in timeless grey

Too many years too soon

“This is not your place,” he smiles,

He weeps, “you must go home.”

 

A sudden, beautiful embrace

In soft Shadow-Lovers arms

Weeping, pouring out regret

 From cruelly parted Angel’s flesh

 

Beauty-sweet tears mingle

In Death’s departing kiss

The mourning Lovers’ only gift

To a tired and weary soul

 

Restless souls wander back to such

A cold and mortal world

Bearing on warm lips the taste of

Shadow-Lovers promise

Reviews

[Tomás Ó C..]

:-) A lover from the other side... spooky and nice!

[An owl on the moon]

Such powerful expression of love and loss in so few words. Thank you, Sarah.

[Mastermind]

Oh, this poem is so Vanyel-esque! I absolutely loved it, the flow is broken just as the spirit is in death, and the descriptions mimic the sorrowful but oddly sweet feel of Death's embrace. This is just the kind of creativity I was looking for in my emotion contest; where everyone else wrote about love and pain, you wrote about both, and how they meet together in our final homecoming. Wonderful, loveling, keep up the excellent work and thanks for entering my contest!

[Christina Harper: Sitti..]

Death... very powerful to write about, and it can be overwhelming to get your feelings down on paper or computer, etc. Intersting imagery and a pretty good piece. I'll have to read some more of your work.

[Doug]

i liked this. i have dealt a lot with death so i completely understand the words "cold and mortal world." beautifully written. my interpretation is interesting...

[Aviendha]

Though it can be taken literally as well, the poem is geared more toward the spiritual, and death as the Shadow-lover.

[Tomás Ó C..]

The language and format of this poem is brilliant, showing the emptyness of the morning after some casual loving. We must go home, for the lover is more a stranger in the mornign than the night before.