Eternal Love

"Eternity" used to mean nothing to me,

Used to be something outreached, unreal,

Something to be named in fairy tales

Or spoken in horror vampire stories

Of the kind that no one believed to be true...

"Forever" is a word I never used...

What lasts forever in a mortal world anyway?

Even those human miseries that seem to last a lifetime

Aren't but tiny grains of sand quickly dispersed by strong winds,

For a lifetime isn't but a mere moment...

Life used to seem short for everything there was to be done...

It seemed particularly feeble for Love...

Ours was so strong that I couldn't stand the idea

That, one day, it had to end... With death.

Then I realized that death could be a start and not the end,

That we could turn our love into something eternal

And that "eternity" wasn't that fictional word

Only used in the vampire stories

That no longer live only in my imagination...

We were so given the gift of darkness,

The power to fly above the clouds,

To live among the stars and be caressed by the moon,

Each and every day of our new life, forever,

As we reborned for the eternal night...

But the price we paid was much too high...

Our feelings moved into stone hearts of cold corpses,

Our reflections no longer exist in each other's lifeless eyes,

And emotions started progressively to be set aside,

For love, being human, can't last long in such inhuman minds...

True love is forever, so they say...

There's some truth in this...

But it's your soul's work to feel,

And your body's to react...

If you let your soul be taken from you

All that's left is an empty shell

Wandering in the shades, hiding from the sun,

and specially, running away from your own indifference

Towards whom used to mean the world to you...

1996