Floor boreal.She sits alone, athirst.
She waited for him, weathering all the storms. She had no choice. Her heart would not allow her to abandon her love. As their time together apart past, one grew in another direction.
Footsteps approach from the distance.
Heart beats with each step almost silencing their touching of the floor.
She loved him so. She continued to wait.
She knew he was coming.
Her mind bemused.
Her body paralyzed.
There was not in which he did not consume her thoughts. As her mind spun with work, to do lists, children, life, death he flourished in the forefront always.
Beyond the footsteps there was a sound.
Metal against metal making a jingling sound.
She loved him for his mind. His deep thoughts. A man with wrinkle free skin with the wisdom of the oldest of men. His eyes encroaching her soul, spoke to her as if they had seen centuries of life.
A warmth besieged her.
Her chest pounding muting the his steps & keys.
Laughter was their lovemaking.
She had aged in their too short years.
Her laugh lines deeper.
Her eyes looked on his body passing the bars.
He turned facing her.
The key entered the lock.
Separated by land & sea he never left her. He wrapped his heart, mind & soul around her in her time of grief. She was never alone without him.
Door creaked open.
He held his eyes down to the floor.
She searched his face, waiting for the moment their eyes locked. Eyelids and lashes could not hide the most beautiful shade of blue. She lifted her body spent. She stood still. The tension held her captive.
Her eyes looked on his body passing the bars.
He turned facing her.
The key entered the lock.
Separated by land & sea he never left her. He wrapped his heart, mind & soul around her in her time of grief. She was never alone without him.
Door creaked open.
He held his eyes down to the floor.
She searched his face, waiting for the moment their eyes locked. Eyelids and lashes could not hide the most beautiful shade of blue. She lifted her body spent. She stood still. The tension held her captive.
A tear traveled down his face.
Her eyes followed it until it disappeared in a forest of hair.
She stood motionless. Why was this great man mournful? He stood before her. She stood before him. Is this moment not the fruition of their love?
A tear became a river of salt water, flowing through forest unyielding.
Each drop pounding as it clashed against the floor.
Her heart quickened nearly exploding from her chest. Her mind races with thoughts. "What is this? Has he not come to be with me? Why does he not look at me? He is the only one who can see me."
All his concentration not to look upon his Eden.
Unlocking the iron door, he walked away.
Realizing he no longer desires to be imprisoned in her love, she waits.
His footsteps become softer with each second.
She does not move.
The only sound her heart pounding beneath her breast.
She knows she could have willed him to stay, to remain her warden.
Loving him more than she could love another.
She freed him of their love.
Knowing he is gone, she roams to the edge of their love; their prison.
There is a world which awaits him; he enters it.
Every ounce of her knows if she calls out, he will return.
She does not; now warden & prisoner of their love alone.
She secures the prison, no longer hoping for his return.
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