My heart still beats on..
as though before, with the same fire..
Only to have a dagger stabbed right through,
forged upon sadness, destruction, and desecration.

Once upon a time, before the dagger staggering,
My fire shined intensely for many of days.
For where there was once a burning love,
all gone now, and never to return again....

-Yang Merquise

Penned by my hand on the 6th of Aeguary, in the year 314 AF.