Promise


Promise



I wandered around the room, looking for a way to forget. I said to myself, ", if there were one thing I could do to understand, what would it be?" Just then, ran into the room and startled me out of my reverie.

", did you hear the news?"

"Of what news would you be speaking, my friend?" I asked in a quiet monotone.

" is here! (S)he calls for you. I fear the may have undone your love's spirit. You must come quickly."

I nearly ran from the room in dispair. The had been tormenting the countryside for nigh on three years. A quick death was considered a gift from God above.

When I reached 's side, the lips were pale and the breath came quickly. God was not to grant an easy death this time.

"Bring me a scribe, and a priest," I commanded, expecting a farewell soon. As I bent down to touch 's lips with mine, I felt a flicker of an eyelash against my cheek. Undone by guilt and unbearable sadness, I collasped at (her)his side, unable to cage my grief. In my weeping, I thought to myself.

In my thoughts we traveled to , and we married and we loved. Our love was beyond the earth, beyond the moon. and I were envelopped in white light, and as our children would run about and gambol in the fields, their faces would be lighted with the same love as we.

But all this was not to be it seemed, for while I was weeping, was preparing to flee the world.

"," came a shallow whisper. "Promise to love me? Promise? I will never leave you. I will always be here. Just promise that you'll wait until we can be together."

"I promise, my love. I promise. I will see you soon," I whispered back, and I knew it would be true, for I could not live in this world alone. I knew not how. "Yes, love, we will be together soon. And we will live in , and we will have children and we will until the sun sets. I promise."

And with that I held a pale cool hand until the heart had stopped. I slipped over to the night stand and picked up the which glittered in the fading sunlight streaming through the open window. I killed myself, stopped my own pulse, froze my blood in my veins to be with . And I am there still. And we are happy. I know not what has happened in my family, nor what has become of my friends. I can only hope that they are safe and that they can forgive me for my transgressions and for leaving them alone in this life. Oh to be with the one you love! Oh to be with ! I will always love you, I promise.

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