Her singers arrived,
Following dawn's return.
To bring Sharin's voice back to those,
Who'd fallen to despair.
She'd never cried one minute above us,
Though we'd been cheated by fate she,
Gave us nothing but fortune.

Once fog finished,
I felt the need to get up and walk a few paces before,
I realized I couldn't,
We haven't eaten for days that growl said,
Pressure entered my head, lightening it to less than a pound,
I retreated to a lower tier level with a trimmed bush,
It was a pampered thing, alien ecology nestled against grey stone.
A sliver of luminescent bronze, a ray of light slide down its handle,
Leaping off the tip and vanishing with a glare,
I wondered why it was there,
where had it come from?
Last choice I made was to clutch my sides and fall beside it,
Moving myself weakly from side to side,
I saw two chestnut combatants, grabbing each other by the head,
Skittering across the dull bronze arena they'd happened upon,
Grapplers born to hold competition between stubborn jaws,
I watched their final glorious moments, captivated by their determination,
To continue living and spread one more time,
Into the annals of history.
One last growl, a churning necessity made itself know,
As I cheered internally with the victor, holding its head up high,
I thought only of myself when I grabbed them both and,
Swallowed without tasting.

Sometimes lying is all you can do,
The only option on the table,
Because there are times that,
Truth is fatal,
If a person you care about is unwilling or unable,
To accept defeat or concede a game,
They want nothing more than to win,
Her anger killed me four times,
Reviving me each time,
I was powerless to stop those roses from being cut,
But If I can just keep her here long enough,
Destroy that homicidal tool of madness,
And keep song playing forever,
We can leave that old life behind us.

Fog came in next,
Falling over my face providing a mask,
I coughed and shivered against weakness,
I could feel this skin becoming colder overall,
It didn't matter, after what we'd been through,
What I'd, a little nothing new was what I wanted to know,
Until I could see the light again.

Dreariness tried to diminish happiness.
I wouldn't let it end my glorious lack of stamina,
Or desire to do nothing and lie helpless against comfort,
It was an enemy I happily conceded to,
My common brown forest spread its roots out,
To the four corners of the relevancy.

The curtains came back up,
Letting the sunlight invade our universe,
Our bubble beneath the world,
Fresh dew collected around my four corners,
From one side I could see a coat of arms,
Sitting pleasantly upon a clear white blanket,
Sprinkled with rainwater.
Returning to feet was too early a task,
To spend rare morning seconds,
On this back I'd stay,
As my cloak gathered as much color,
As hue could hold.

However much I tried to hold it,
That smile took over once we'd started to dance,
Winds caught our cloaks, holding them for us.
My smallnesses were treated as tender vessels of grace,
Collected inside his gentle instruments of playful security,
We were both safe and in danger, it was all possible and perfect,
No barriers or protections, only the terrible magnificence of constancy.
Twisting across our five senses until we couldn't think of other places,
Only the here and now because everything else wasn't real,
It was ecstasy, his eyes fixed on my every movement.
I was a performance he'd give four stars,
If he could pluck them out of the night sky.
Curves and angles, lion heads spreading into the air,
Tempting eyes to water and noses to itch,
Dizziness made it all soo real, slowing down reality.
Allowing us to be here as long as our hearts could hold out,
Our feet kept up somehow, these stolen shoes, his borrowed boots,
Glided over green grasses beaten sticky and wet,
By our twirling figures oblivious to fatigue,
I fell first, he stumbled back like a champion undaunted,
By a jousters spear to the chest but,
He to was sent spinning to the ground.
We fell asleep watching creation reveal itself.
As our bodies began to shutdown,
Defying our desire to remain awake,
Forever.