Between Life and Death

He cups my cheeks in a gentle embrace
And slowly lowers his lips to mine
Mixed feelings rush over my soul
As I quiver under his touch
I view unfinished dreams of him and I
Wondering why they are broken
Until the myriad of my thinking
Stops suddenly in time.

I see the cursed blade
That took my life and his
My mind screams out in anger
As the blade continues to kill
He takes the blade within his grasp
And lets the blade do its will
It slams itself into his broken heart
And watches himself bleed.

He slowly crumbles to the ground
Choking to take a breath
I fall to my knees before him
And cradles his crimson head
I kiss his dying lips and look into his fading eyes
He was able to whisper his last words
Before he left this world in tears
“I love you,” he wept and vanished from my arms.

I scream with wild anguish
As my love disappears from my life
Nothing left except for the love we once shared
And the damned blade!
I took the blade within my enraged fist
And felt the blood lust that it craved
I look down upon the smooth edge
Which my tears fall upon.

I glance down at the heavy blade
Which brought on all my grief
My eyes harden at the gleaming dagger
And I stab it against the wall
The wall disappears to form a mirror
And I witness the truth of it all
In actuality I did not stab the wall
But my own broken heart.

I fall against the mirror to watch the vision enfold
The crimson blood pool around my head
My lips that kissed my lover before
Is now flecked with arterial blood
I fall in the darkness as it engulfs me
I willingly fall into the cold hatred
Overcome by such grief of losing my love
To the same one that took my own.

I awake in a brightly lit room
Inside are two manly forms
A light suddenly falls upon them
I gasp in surprise and delight
The first man is my father
In purely dark robes of gloom
The only one to love my mother
And birthed me to my fiery world.

I turn my gaze to the other
I instantly brighten and smile
And he slowly approaches me
He cups my cheeks in a gently embrace
And slowly lowers him lips to mine
Mixed feelings rush over my soul
As I quiver under his touch
And it continues once again.