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She begged him not to go that night, we'll survive love, we can find a way but if you must go, please tell me love, you'll promise to avoid the lights The forest was their home, their world they knew each tree, each hump and hollow they'd always lived there safe and sound til the long hard strip unfurled It came one spring when they were young brought by those who killed with noise the monstrous beasts tore out the strip through the forest where they'd lived so long It was then the strange lights began to come each day as their warm God left the sky the hour when they would wake to eat would now a fearful time become Their young cried out for lack of food his heart broke as he heard them there was no choice, he must go now they had to feed their brood The strip had changed their forest land divided into two from one their safe lair lay deep in the woods the water across the fearful band He knew the salmon's spawning ground was where he'd find their favorite meal enough to keep the young ones live across the dreaded strip he's bound The lights would catch his limpid eyes he tried to run, escape their hold but futile was his bid to flee the beams would have him mesmerized She waited with their young for hours she prayed to their pale God in the sky but when she could no longer stay she sought his trail with all her powers She saw him then upon the ground he'd made it cross the fearful strip the effort must have been so great he slept now, there so very sound She called to him, her love, her mate he didn't stir, perhaps he dreamed of their life together in the woods she had to know, she could not wait She ran to him across the strip her heart was pounding like a drum her lungs exploding with each breath she'd give her life to make this trip The lights then, had her in their hold she fought against them with her love to reach her mate, to touch again to know that they would still grow old Together now, they dream as one of times before the forest changed before the strip destroyed their world their love still lives, though they are gone
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