Aravis-Brightspell

How can I shun your skies When they hold the promise of rain In the deserts of my heart?

Moments frozen in time, A kaleidoscope of our joy and tears, Your eyes as clear as the morning sky, Your voice and touch, real as yesteryears. For memory like love can be found In the deep well of our minds, our hearts. It can be heard though without a voice, Seen and touched without eyes or flesh. For where memory spans this endless sea, There my love will always be.

Chasing wayward thoughts in vain, Breath tight as an unspun drum. Never has the silence been shaken By this heart's incessant thrum. Nothing was ever upside down, Not a leaf turned in unchanging season. 'Til you, a windstorm, tossed it all away, And left this lackluster soul a reason. So I stand, frozen at your door, Words that rarely fail, escape me. But never have the days been so clear, When I'm turned inside out so perfectly. Just one knock, one heartfelt sound, A prayer to grace your radiant sights. And yet, all my eloquence departs— When I'm caught beneath your floodlights.

You asked me once why I chose to stay in this place that Time abandoned. A place where every bone and fiber compels me to run far, far away. But I am no longer the disillusioned shell, the music box that fell apart-- I am both heaven and hell. My tears have turned to ashes as I embraced your fiery skies. I faced the raging tempest, the darkness in your eyes. I know, I know in my heart why I chose to stay-- In the dying rose, the briars and thorns, I have found the lost part that once was true. Deep in the tangled shadows, the part that is undeniably You. ✧☽ ✧ 🌹 ✧ ☽ ✧ Inspired by the tale, Beauty and the Beast

If he were to live but a single day, He would seize every second without delay, And never dwell on what's behind or before, But the Now that is ever near Death's door. And if on that day-- He were to love but a single moment, He'd save the world again from its torment. That one day, that one love brings many a heart, Into the Light that will never let us part.