Timeless Torment
In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear
Why do I feel your words and presence, so close and so near?
Are we doing this again, communicating through signs?
How is this even possible, when I am no longer yours, and you are no longer mine?
It’s been six months, when will this end?
I can still feel you, this connection won’t seem to bend
If we were not soulmates, then why do we feel like this?
Despite all this time and all the others, it’s each other we both still miss
The night has a thousand eyes, and the day but one
Yet the light of the bright world dies with the dying sun
The mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart but one
Yet the light of a whole life dies, when love is done
They say that love supposedly starts with a spark
And that might be true
But if I were to wish you a love, I wouldn’t wish fire for you
You see, fire is powerful; it burns bright and then it is gone
It’s beautiful and warm, but it doesn’t last very long
So, instead of wishing you a love that burns
I wish you a love like a river twists and turns
It changes and it flows, it is powerfully free
Yet it always manages to find its way back to the sea
As we no longer speak, I want to share with you these two poems by Edgar Allen Poe in the hope you may one day see
For they bring me comfort, as your memory continues to haunt me ~
“From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were—I have not seen
As others saw—I could not bring
My passions from a common spring—
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow—I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone—
And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—
Then—in my childhood—in the dawn
Of a most stormy life—was drawn
From ev’ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still—
From the torrent, or the fountain—
From the Red Cliff of the mountain—
From the sun that ’round me roll’d
In its autumn tint of gold—
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass’d me flying by—
From the thunder, and the storm—
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view—".
“In visions of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed—
But a waking dream of life and light
Hath left me broken-hearted.
Ah! What is not a dream by day
To him whose eyes are cast
On things around him with a ray
Turned back upon the past?
That holy dream—that holy dream,
While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
A lonely spirit guiding.
What though that light, thro' storm and night,
So trembled from afar—
What could there be more purely bright
In Truth's day-star?”