• April 28, 2024
Chapter 7:

	All this, He showed me, under the tree -
	he told me of things that were, and might be.
	But that was then, and time brings change -
	I feared it may be too late,

	He had left me, bleeding.
	I reached out -
	He turned his back and what about
	life after death I clung to.

	(hoping I could hold on and be true)

	But I had let go -
	Death, my strange foe.
	I had lost my grip twice,
	and floated, surely, on the black river

	(shot, by an arrow from Charon's quiver)

	Surely I'd reached the other side by now -
	and waking, I soon knew that I had.
	I woke suddenly, on a bed of moss.
	My body whole again, and heard familiar bees.

//

	My reverie  was quickly  broken as I saw a  flash of white.  I  weakly
propped myself up and my gaze fell upon the same lady in white. She sang,
tenderly,  an  intoxicating  song,  as  one  of  the bees briefly paused, 
weightlessly upon a perfect emerald ring on her finger.	    I knew
then that I was victorious, and ran quickly towards her. She looked at me
,  passionately , and we embraced.

	Singing, beautifully, I was lost in her song.
	I was lost in her sea-foam eyes.

	We danced,
	time was meaningless as we danced.
	I  knew  my  journey  was  at  an  end
	and my heart was lost in her song.
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