The Queen built a castle in the sand.
She lay next to it and anticipated the day
When the waves would come to sweep them away.
She had no fear
As the tide grew near,
And then something happened that she never expected.
The Madman came and kicked it down,
Before the castle and its Queen had the chance to drown.

“Checkmate” said The Madman,
And as he spoke,
The Queen felt a feeling she had never experienced before,
The feeling that she could run with The Madman along the shore
Until they reached the end of the Earth.
And even as night became day,
and the universe collapsed all around them,
They would be okay.

Sometimes,
I still find myself lost in my memories of him.
and if I go back to the place where all of this started,
and I fill my lungs with the scent of the familiar air,
I can feel his presence there.

I hate to say it,
but it would have been easier for me if he had actually died.
His body lives on,
but the mind I fell so deeply in love with is gone.

I held him in my arms as he began to fade,
and I watched him change until all of who he once was dripped onto the floor.
It was the hardest decision I ever made,
but I finally shut the door.

I was spinning circles in my rowboat in the middle of the sea,
No life or land in any direction I looked,
It was me and only me.
To this day,
I’m still unable to determine whether I was lonely or if I was free.

I let myself drift off to sleep,
And when I awoke,
I found myself staring at a flawless goddess from the deep.

Here she was,
Everything everyone else wanted.
Any written description of her loveliness
Would not accurately depict the perfection of her features,
For she was the embodiment of all that was Beauty,
And positively incomparable to any other creatures.

She tried to climb into my boat but had trouble getting her grip,
I started to help her, but in that moment when she depended upon me most,
I let her slip.

I like to believe that there must be another universe,
parallel to our own,
and I toy with the possibility that somewhere out there,
I am not alone.

I long to be lost in this alternate reality,
where all of our dreams came true,
we never had to say goodbye,
and I don’t lose my mind every time I think of you...

But it all evaporates from view as soon as I look at it,
leaving me with only a small glimpse of what could have been and what will never be,
at least not in this universe.