"So what does Twin's Nights entail?" Cian asked as he and Mercutio followed behind Damien.
The lanky boy shrugged, pushing some messy white locks from his face. Cian couldn't help but notice the way that the boy walked. Damien moved like an animal, not like a human. Light footsteps that were careful, his toes always spread as if they were paws with pads. He also seemed to be haunched, as if he were expecting things to jump at him and he needed to be able to fall on all fours to escape. Stretching his senses Cian could feel people in the area, nothing that terribly dangerous. Not yet at least.
"Twin's Nights is a lot of singing and da
"Where are we going now?" Cian asked as he and Mercutio stepped out into space.
His friend shrugged slightly, brushing a hand through his chestnut colored hair. Mercutio seemed rather smiley, but uncharacteristically quiet since their hysteria over the fish bubbles. Neither was going to mention the one they had in tow with them. It was a larger bubble, with a spiky blue fish and school of purple fish swimming around it. The fish were unfazed by their change in location and simply swam. Neither was sure what they were going to do with their bubble of fish, but they were going to keep it and that was that.
"I've not made a decision ye
Rain trickles down my window pane
Sparkling glass
Crying diamond tears
Walking down the lane
Frozen in time
Like an old photograph
Bright colors, subdued with nostalgia
Glistening dewdrops
Kiss the flowers' velvet dresses
A fresh breeze
Swirls around me in a whirlwind of
Hope and love
I inhale the dreams that died
Buried under the hard ground
That the new rain has unearthed
I dance with abandon
Childish laughter bubbles up like a spring
As I vivaciously stomp through a stagnant puddle
Life breathes around me
As I spin and twirl
Smiling as the sun begins to shine on me
Parting through grey clouds
It beams at me with its gorgeous rays
An
In a perfect world,
you’d have the perfect award,
for this life-long service of yours.
However, its plain to see,
that I’ve lived imperfectly,
with gifts at the root of the cause.
The soft snow drifts down,
upon my guilty frown,
an orange vest upon me is lain.
A chained ball at my legs,
as my own heart begs,
that avarice be to blame.
I guess I could appeal,
but ‘fair’ isn’t real.
There’s truly no point anymore,
I send you my best,
send our daughter the rest,
I’ll love you both forevermore.
Encased you’ll find
hopefully, piece of mind,
in a heartfelt letter to thee.
Keep it ‘til she&rs
There were consequences to bringing Mercutio to certain worlds. The man was like a sponge, absorbing the energy of the world around him and both internalizing and externalizing it. So, in hindsight, perhaps Cian had this one coming.
From space this world seemed rather interesting and Cian could fuzzily (actually perfectly, but he would pretend it wasn't) remember saying the word "quaint" about it. It was a world that had a very low gravitational pull, and as a result many things in the world floated. If Cian remembered anything he should have remembered the time they went to a mostly bioluminescent world, where touching anything made the
it's the iron taste
lingering on my lips
and the trembling now
through my fingertips
the red behind
shuddering eyes
the collateral damage
the covert lies
the way your heart beats
through your shirt, through your chest
it's the demons in you
and the way they won't rest
there's always someone waiting
through the window, behind the door
there's always someone watching
through the ceiling, through the floor
in the shadowed corners
of these whitewashed rooms
everything starts to scream
as the paranoia blooms
one person's heart
and another's mind;
we play hide and go seek-
there are people to find
only another's darkness
c
He waits in the shadows
Watching and learning
Trying to resist
His unconquerable yearning
An actor of rare disguise
Covering half-truths with unfinished lies
His plans twist and turn
Taking years for fruition
After which he disappears
A forgotten apparition
While lesser men succumb
To the beckoning temptation
He stands regardless
Steadfast by his station
Vigil of the darkness
Watcher of the night
Countless men have tried
To evade his inhuman sight
He is the sum of his fears
For he chooses what he wants to be
He has uncertainties, he has doubts
But is afraid intentionally
He tends the shades of the mighty
And the shadows