Chapter I
She was veiled in eternity,
basking in the glory of her form
in the shining pride of her new-found youth
and her impossible to circumvent charm.
And there she stood, facing the
mirror
admiring her succulent face,
combing her tresses again and again,
resplendent within her the beauty at
which even
...the nymphs may feel displaced.
And yet, there was something amiss,
I stumbled upon that feeling by
chance;
the grave indifference towards the
love of life
which gave the impression of forlorn.
She saw me; and as she lowered her
gaze
there was something about her that
burnt ablaze,
It was the intensity within my eyes,
at which she felt bare, she later surmised.
I was captivated at our first
acquaintance;
...such an embodiment of Aphrodite
she was,
her outline shining with the luster
of her soul
her inner beauty subtly appearing on
her face thereof.
Chapter II
"Who are you?" she asked
very discreetly,
Her tone was mild, her voice was
rhythmic
Her words, stately even if ordinary,
had a strong impact on my balance.
"I am you, as you are me,
and we are siblings, the children of
same god,
as we are lovers, whose lives are bound forever
at which the sun shines on its own accord."
She scrutinized me, from top to
bottom
"You are not of noble
blood!"
Her gaze pierced my lustrous armour;
"You are one of the holy knights; your job is to battle."
"You kill humans, and find
pleasure in their death,
You take pride in belittling God's
gift of flesh!
And then proudly push the sword back in the sheath
We're not lovers, and shall never
have each other."
“I, on my part, am gravely in love
with life.
Everything reverberates with the
rhythm of my soul
and everything violent and dark I
admonish.
Your audacity of us being one is a protestation to
astonish.”
"I am the keeper of the worthy
of this world,
everything I nurture with my heart and my soul.
The music of my creation makes the
spirit cruise
I make paintings ethereal, in which the soul is the
muse"
"And yet, there is something
compelling about your eyes,
that makes me feel you are destined
to be in my life,
as a pursuer perhaps of my cosmic
wings
Extending your violence to my blissful strife."
I laughed aloud, at how impressive I
was!
not a trace of beauty of my face, my
body full of scars
and this penchant for violence was not my only bad deed
Howsoever grave it may have appeared indeed.
"I am human love, yet full of
pernicious fight.
Painful in appearance, but I am a symbol of light.
Formed within the core of the divine
himself
Yet fragile in my strength, as I navigate all your hidden
depths."
"I am within you, not the noble
part you see,
but you'll discover the waves of
pain and pleasure with me.
Your brows were raised, when you
were ogling at your own face
Wondering what is the divide between love and sinful
disgrace."
"I am here, to answer your
questions one and all,
To take you along, on a path tough
and rough
I will be the catalyst of your affair with infinity,
give you the same fate as the millions of minions
...who get used to me"
"You'll seek glory then,
perhaps rise above yourself,
or fall into the abyss of obscure bottomless depth
I am the moment, of your cognizance
of the truth of life,
I will bring you the day of judgement in your soul's
stride"
She grimaced, her expressions were
confused,
There was joy in her heart and
immense fear of solitude
"Why of all the damsels, did
you then choose me?
Why bring my life to this vantage point of seeking
thee?"
"I was happy, weaving the
beauty of the world,
why take me to a different path,
which appears so devoured?
Is happiness so short-lived in my
fate
Why force on me this test, when all I’ve walked on is a path
straight?"
Chapter III
I felt for her, for her reservations
to give up wings,
but I too was bound by the orders of the supreme king,
I had borne the wrath of the stormy
tempests and the ignited sun,
and of the timeless hearts, of which she owned one.
"I can't let you out of this
path that the you've sought
for it's you who called me, in the
most innate of your thoughts,
I won't go back without catalyzing
the subject of my destiny
without making your wings my own, I cannot pacify my life’s
mutiny."
"I have to clutch onto you,
hold you, and force you to grow,
my knighthood will transcend us as I
do this onerous task.
Glory of my life is about killing
naivety of men,
and give them an existence without which their journey will
be in disdain"
"Born to be complete with me,
you'll have to bear my stay.
That's the role the sovereign lord
delineated for us to play.
Even if I am for a moment in your life,
it should be enough to let you from your trajectory astray."
"Give me up, and give me up
once and for all,
but then don't live your beauty, for
it's the sole cause,
It's the highest calling for me to incarnate
without beauty, love is as good as obsolete."
"We are both facets of the same
coin,
one which is tossed in the air to learn earthly design.
I within you and you within me shall
find the final abode,
or else the conscience of the world will bear the
consequence's load."
Chapter IV
"Why do you come then? Why
should one torment?
Why should the beauty of the world
be put to its end?"
She asked, doe-eyed, drenched in the
charm of her innocence
in her very last passionate, futile
attempt to survive my presence.
"Give me my veracity back! And
I am allowing you to go alive.
There are many cavaliers that
protect me, who'd be happy to take your life.
Boasting of the gods, you are truly
a devil incarnate,
Truth is that love, whose flow ne’er
can be bound by your gate."
"No one can stop me and my chaste
love to flow,
and my beauty to adorn life, for it is not shallow.
Your agonizing presence will now
have an abrupt end.
You've come on the wrong path; and
thy remonstrations now I suspend."
"The truth within me will lead
to the death of yourself, you mortal
your spirit shall elope into the netherworld, to never return to this portal.
You'll die, with the cruelty with
which you excruciate hurt.
Only my purity shall remain, the
purity with which I love."
I smiled, for the beauty was fast becoming an assassin,
doing exactly what she thought was my deadly sin.
Going down from the highest to the
feverish dark slope
lost in her puerile logic, unaware
of the predestined scope!
"I am eternity,” I proclaimed , “the most effective weapon of crime.
My duty absolves me of the kingdom
of time and clime.
I shall hold you there! Divest you of your unenlightened veil,
clog your vitality and you'd not have strength to appeal."
I saw rage in her eyes, for they had
become dark red,
But I saw in her also perception; to
stride on a path she'd otherwise never tread.
Lost in her own thoughts, she finally
capitulated to my presence,
Recognizing herself in me, realizing she's cannot win my
parlance.
Chapter
V
"I am you and you are me?"
she repeated as she asked
"Why then this cruelty as you
seem to accomplish your task?”
“Why not with love do you take your
prisoners away,
if epitome of human love is what you
are you say?"
"Take me, love me, if you must,
and clutch me in chains of gold,
Nonetheless, you shall also reverse
the trajectories and lifetimes you behold
Give me the charm that will take me
out of this forlorn
and take away from me sin, with which you say I was born."
I closed my eyes, as I withered
slowly inside almost to vanish,
Was this really the insurmountable task
I was sent to accomplish?
I had never met such an astute
subject ever in my past,
This epitome of beauty was my
destiny set in my forecasted cast.
Slowly I felt, my pains started to fade
away,
and my ego and fortitude started to
get disarrayed,
Fresh skin replaced my disoriented
old crust,
I got back my youth, as I found someone to trust.
"You are pure," I
reverberated from the deepest of my being;
"Much purer than anything, I
had ever known,
Your presence has given me the
elixir of eternal youth
and you shall denude me of this sin which was my hitherto
truth."
"And yet, I shall take you away
from the world in which you live,
for there is this higher force which
is obstinate to contrive.
This kingdom shall nevermore be your
slave and you shall never rule again
You shall rule the earth of my
making, wherein your title you retain.”
"But this flight of ours cannot
be further delayed,
give me your hand O Queen, the
cosmos is intently grave.
Its lightning bolts strike when you
least expect its wrath.
Let us, before it gets apathetic, redefine for us an
alternate path."
She extended her hand to hold forever
mine.
She smiled as she realized the
destiny cast in time.
"I always knew you've come to
take me away,
It’s your knighthood to which my heart had come to sway."
"And yet, I was uncertain if
this darkness would ever fade
and what fervent designs of predestination
would my future shade,
But You, Knight, are much higher
than what you seem,
No wonder, it's in your favor that the gods appear to deem."
"You are beautiful when you
remove your dirty mask,
you are chiseled with the fineness
and the mightiness of your task,
built within your confines are
greatest tales on earth
I now together we discover the endless possibilities and
their worth."
"Give me my freedom Oh Knight
that I may complete the mission of my birth
and build with me the story ever-rejoiced
and celebrated on this earth
Let our love be the legend which
generations would look upon
with immense fortitude in our claims which give rise to a
new dawn."
"Let there be light, let it
shine, every place to which together conquer.
Let there be a world, a novel world,
which men did not evermore suffer.
Let us be the hope, in which the
solitary find their solace,
and those engaged, look up to the immensity of the mighty space."
"And retrieve their world, from
the pettiness of their crimes,
give rise to new realities with the song
of love as their chime."
She flew, and she flew, like no
other that I knew,
Her exalting beauty of cosmos creating so much anew.
I flew with her, allowed her wings
to be in place,
There was no need of me clutching
them, our flight had so much power and grace,
I held her, when she needed me, I
kept her aloft
as she touched me, and held me, if I stumbled in the draft.
Epilogue
The story is a symbol, of the true
love of night and day,
of the Queen and the Knight, whose trust
in each other did not sway.
She was smitten by the strength
ingrained in his character,
while he was in love with her
consistency that never shattered.
They were both cradled in The Divine’s
arms,
and they were both by their nature
beyond the worldly charms.
And yet, they did fight in the darkness
of this civilization,
as their colors gave a new hues and meaning
to the twilight and its passion.
It is often the opposites that meet,
and give rise to the vibrant dawn,
and increase the intensity of light and
proximity of the horizon.