A Memory and a Promise
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I tell myself not to be selfish
Not to ask for more than what I deserve
Not to demand all the things beyond my grasp

But every passing breeze whispers your name
Every song I hear resonates with your voice
And in every silence I can feel your presence
I hear the echoes of a memory and a promise
Never forgotten but nevermore to be fulfilled

Long ago you spoke to me of love
Offered your soul when I'd yet not sought your heart
And opening mine to all the pain and rapture of desire

Now I am the one who must languish in solitude
While you wander among unknowable worlds
And in every silence I can feel your presence
I hear the echoes of a memory and a promise
Never forgotten but nevermore to be fulfilled

With you I could forget the world
Thinking only of what we shared together
And of you --- my pet, my vanquisher, my soul

I never had meant to fall in love, but you ---
You always could unravel my best-laid plans
Now in every silence I can feel your presence
I hear the echoes of a memory and a promise
Never forgotten but nevermore to be fulfilled

Now I'll never see you again
Some will tell me that I have found my freedom at last
To them, I say that I long only to be chained once more.

Penned by my hand on the 25th of Daedalan, in the year 376 AF.