Il Anor III - A Hearts Journey

A woman hugged her partner close
And whispered in his ear
No one heard the words she chose
Save whom she called dear
With those words in mind he rose
And took a breath of daring
And looked around at all of those
His words would not be sparing
It has been just a decade
Since the day that they had met
Under moonlight, in the hidden glade
Two hearts could not forget:

A lonesome spring was looming
Lonely winter it had been
For a young man’s life was blooming
Like a king without his queen
A part was absent in his life
That he’d sought all these years
A woman that would be his wife
And love away his fears
But none he’d seen thus far
Shared the longing in his eyes
They would leave his heart to mar
And destroy him with goodbyes

So one day in that lonely chill
A tale would seek his ears
Of something that would inspire will
And forsake his lonely fears
It was said that during the dying week
Of the frost-filled months of late
Eros’ star would be there to seek
To seal a forlorn fate
It was the only star of its kind
That’s lived up to what was said
Glinting from its star filled rind
And glowing a deeper red

A fairy tale it must have been
The man’s heart heavy growing
The night sky veiled his scarlet scene
With Eros’ star not showing
Snow’s final week showed its face
To the city of lonely heart
Eros would shine his light of grace
And the lonesome would depart
He slept by day and ran by night
A crusade of blinded passion
Following that of hope and light
In a romantic sort of fashion

The air was clear and cold to feel
In the musing of his land
The present air felt much more real
Now mixed with heat and sand
Still the desperate sought the star
In the resentment of the dark
It seemed to twinkle just too far
For the hopeful to embark
With his water and food but spent
In the middle of the waste
It did not matter how far he went
For despair to be replaced

For one full week he chased it
Until at last his hope gave in
As Eros covered what he had lit
So the ending could begin
There in a night’s early hour
His feelings shed and fell
Unaware of an ancient power
And the beginning of a spell
The sand mimicked the starry sky
As it twinkled with a light
That from the ground rose up high
To blind the weepers sight

A rumbling and scaling
Followed the earthbound aura
The ascending light was failing
To reveal a spread of flora
He witnessed an answered prayer
His mind carried out a duty
Standing in the glade so fair:
A statue of frozen beauty
The statue stared into the night
With her hands joined in plea
Around her neck hung Eros’ light
The star he couldn’t see

Grass brushed his moving feet
In this world to him unknown
As he propelled himself to meet
That gift of crafted stone
He embraced her figure thin
And surveyed her stony eyes
The stone was melting into skin
Touch casting off her guise
Her eyes turned a gleaming jade
And her dress a misty white
The garments stone would slowly fade
Now billowing in the night

They stood there, both connected
Both drenched in pale light
From the moon that still protected
The scene from velvet night
The man’s breath began to haste
The woman’s heart would follow
The week of desert he had faced
Left him feeling hollow
No longer could his legs support
The desire of his heart
The moment had become too short
As death tore them apart

The desert laughed with callous gust
As it blew right through the man
And took away his brave robust
To destroy a lover’s plan
A desperate man no longer
But a victim of the sand
There was only one thing stronger
Than the desert’s last demand
The statue; now awoken
Held the still and grey romantic
His love for her unspoken
Her heart was growing frantic

The decades she had waited
For a heart to break the spell
The stone had been sedated
Yet that heart bade her farewell
A lonely life she would refuse
Her necklace glowing brightly
With the magic she would use
She held her lover tightly
She kissed him with a vital zeal
With a will defying fate
Magic had a death to heal
She prayed it not too late

The red necklace began to dim
As she withdrew her kiss
Eros’ magic was kind to him
Wrenched him from abyss
His lungs began to heave
And his heart began to pound
He felt the fabric of her sleeve
And made a groaning sound
His sight dived into pools of jade
As he started into her eyes
He left the deserts plight to fade
Lost in romancing ties

He drew her closer by her arms
Awoken from his sleep
They embraced in the glade of charms
Joy forced them to weep
The night seemed to never end
As they joined hands and walked
The glade seemed to grow and bend
As the couple kissed and talked
They didn’t stop and observe
That they walked a path of grass
That as they walked it would preserve
But behind them it would pass

Now his longing had been met
He’d no longer feel alone
I don’t suppose he would forget
That figure of printed stone
She fell in love with this man
That travelled the desert vast
That yearning she could understand
From the silence of her past
Now they shared that longing
And hearts began their mending
Their love would be belonging
And ensure a happy ending

A sigh of awe would issue
From our table of attention
Eyes were dabbed with tissue
At this tale of ascension
The couple held each other close
As proof they wouldn’t part
And with their drinks make a toast:
To the journey of a heart