The Warrior's Inamorata

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.