Sunday, February 21, 2016

A meeting...but more, a connecting



   1

Her toes were tickled

As she twirled and spun

Singing her song to awaken the trees

and guide the warmth of the moon’s kiss

to the deepest parts of things

 

In the distance, there were sharp sounds

Sounds of metal, death, crashing unconnected steps

 

And so she hung to the tips of the deepest underbrush

While the battle raged

 

Her muscles quivered

Beneath her gossamer gown

As she prepared to venture nearer the place

Where the crashing ended

 

   2

Eyes mostly closed

She saw the form at the base of her tree

As clear as if it were in midday sunshine

 


Mouth softly parted to taste

The air changes

She licked her lips in silent sorrow

At the iron ice of blood song

 

Nostrils flared, she sniffed, slow and deep

And olfactory filters

Sent the minute, lingering memory

Of a large form falling, dragging, crawling

 

Her feet caressed each dent he’d left

Following the path his body had carved

 

And every inch of fairy blood flowing

Beneath her glowing ivory skin sang a song of

Sorrow at the pain he wore

Like an aura shroud, covered every bit of all of him

 

This one, he was not like other humans.

This one, she might just fix,

If her powers allowed

 

        3

And his armor is as white as ghostly night gallows

gleaming

in moonlight madness

kissed and cracked, dented and viscously attacked

yet whole

 

his blood comes

from places unprotected

 

so she tiptoes

sends out her heart to search

hair to hear

and fingers to feed

upon his dreams

 

they fill her

touch her

sing songs so sweet the Seraphim

tremble

in sorrow and desperation for surcease.

 

Thus her only recourse

is breath.

 

She leans in

breaths in

 

and breaks while she breathes

a light leaving her lips

and entering his.

 

   4

till LIght fades and falls into

more light

and dew dances on lashes

 

his armor is aside

 

his pain is, for now, aside

 

he dreams

 

And there are words

Like sunset songs

There are oaths, promises

explanations

 

For barefoot faeries

titles and times, battles and barriers

are next to nothing

 

There is connection.

There is belief.

There is trust

 

One to another, trust where there has rarely been before.

And there is passion.

 

5

To the Fae

when these worlds touch

you touch back

for there is magic there

And so she did

 

And Aine sang

and midsummer melted into the worlds that gave wing to her feet

and she told him he was bound to her

and she was pledged to him

 

and he smiled.

So

she gave him her name

and she kissed him

and danced away on drew drops to the tops of

every tree

 

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