Though Lovers Be Lost

 Though Lovers Be Lost

by JessicaRae

Through pain, they share joy.

Through loss, they share tears.

Through denial, they share dreams.

Through the medium of alternate time and reality, they can wish and they can hope for as long as the earth stands. No one can understand the depth of their longing, the pain of their suffering, and the betrayal of the lives they live after dawn. Living as though actors in a play during the hustle of the commoners, and coming together in the culmination of dreams at the setting of the earths light.

This is what it means to love in dreams. To love in secret. To love in pain. Oh that the earth would just stand still, and all lovers unite for the barest moment in time, to have and hold and dream again. Unfair is time, as it rips apart the wishes of those it governs. Pushing and driving those that covet its excess, Time is the slavemaster of all. They can only grasp what moments it allows, and cherish and fuel their desires with them. They are connected by the rarest of touch, that spans the distance of space, and no amount of travel will break that desire, or cause it's decay. They will linger, and last, as long as eternity has written, held back by reality, and drawn together by fancy. What some would call madness is the soothing balm of belonging in their hearts. They have lived the agony of separate dwellings, they have endures the tears of helpless prayers. They have born the weight of Fate's unbending will. And they have survived.

While some have their dreams and the chance to live them out, these two can only whisper and touch and hope. A glance, a word, a smile, they are all that Time will allow. Unfair, cruel world. Though lover's be lost, their dreams continue, and are cast as a glowing star to earth to live again in the hearts of the next dreamers who arise. Maybe Time will be kinder to them.