Love Odyssey Part 3: Redemption
I learn now she is no more,
The heart just couldn’t bear the stress,
Cold and still, lying on the floor
With an unworn wedding dress.
I sit here pondering
Over once true love gone at last,
The mind now begins to wandering,
What if, I’d forgiven the past?
If I’d given what was left,
We may have been together strong,
Yet in my heart was a cleft
Filled up with all she'd done wrong.
Perhaps, in the next place, her I’ll find,
And with truest soul implore
That hand in hand, warm and kind,
Company we make, forevermore.
With a final breath of air
And revelation newly shown,
Letting go of worldly care
As from this world now I’ve flown.
Awoken in a field of green
Under light of setting sun,
Beauty beyond all I’ve seen
In a place tears no longer run.
Taking in surrounding grace,
By no other am I met,
But in the distance by cliff face,
Stands a familiar silhouette.
Going forth with rapid breath
To bring peace to mind and wired nerve,
Here she is, beyond even death
From her my path should never swerve.
I took a place at her side
While she stared straight ahead,
Not my way had she eyed,
Not a word there was said.
After many minutes spent
Gazing on the evening red,
From her heart thoughts were sent
As firmly set she then said:
“You’ve some nerve to meet me here,
For my being here’s your cause,
Go on, go ahead and steer
Yourself away from my many flaws.”
“My dear, ‘twas you I tried to find
From the moment I’d met my fate,
Yet it seems to my mind,
Here, for me, you did wait.
At that she gave a blush,
Knowing what I’d said as true,
This brought my heart to rush
With feelings old, and feelings new.
“My love for you was always there
Through ev’ry single mistake I made,
I’ll always love, always care
Until the sun gives out to shade.”
“I stand behind all I’d said
For the pain you caused my heart,
Yet, my heart is far from being lead,
This place, perhaps, a second start.
In the past we’ve had our grief,
But in this place where time won’t end,
Our past is now a fallen leaf
To a sprouting love to mend.”
Turning then, with eyes now bright
At hearing of her one true dream,
Through all of our pain and plight
In paradise she’d truly seem.
Without a word, we then embraced,
Earthly struggles gone now, it seemed,
In our Heaven, fingers interlaced
As this love of ours had been redeemed.
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