The Swan Song

Has someone cursed our love or cast a malevolent spell? Why do the heavens envy our love and wish us unwell? The union of our two worlds-- My realm of the angels where celestial lights light our eternal pathway, and yours down in the antipodes where the deep darkness reigns isolating the most austere isolation, the abode of the dreaded Hades. My cruel maiden save me from this pain, my mournful heart is pining. This smothering loneliness is driving me swooning insane. Since you’ve been gone I dwell forlorn in a realm of perpetual darkness, bereft of your love this pain is least to abate. Wake up my love, my stilled heart, Oh, do come back and enliven this woebegone soul lest I breathe my last even as I grow weary of the wait. ~Wake Up My Heart contest by Julie Leigh Rodeheaver