Love is something that has never come easily to someone like me.

A melancholy critic who keeps everyone at a distance.

A tower of self isolation and fear guarding me on all sides.

You, though, came from underground.

Digging through the self-loathing and worthlessness I stand on top of.

You made me start to climb those same walls,

Scared of the care and warmth you brought with you.

Despite seeing the real me behind the rose tinted glass everyone else has seen me through,

That warmth and care never ceased.

Now I am here,

A melancholy critic who is determined to be the sunlight during your day,

And your moonlight throughout the night.

Wanting every ounce of you to feel the care and warmth you’ve given me.

Love is something that has never come easily to someone like me,

Until you.

I love you

I love you

I love you

No. I don't think I actually do.

I don’t know if I even know what those words even mean.

Yet I have been saying it because its what you have been wanting to hear.

I don’t love you.

I don’t love you

I don’t love you

But I do care, and I hope that’s enough.

He the ruler of love and holy matrimony

A duty doted on him by the gods.

To tie the feet of those in love so they may never part.

Soul, heart, and mind becoming one.

As loved surrounded him, but no one to love, he grew lonesome and dim

Until his light no longer shining

But that was before he met her.

The woman who in which gave him his internal light.

They fell into a mesh of infatuation and lust

He tied his feet to the woman's of the light

Their love growing so bright that they casted a light that turned black, causing the worlds to go dark.

Mother was angered and cursed them for their blind actions

Forcing them to be separated by night and day

For he is the moon, and she the sun.

Their ties, still intact, are stretching out for eternity.

As I am myself

A half of a greater being.

Separated from my other half by the Gods and left on a never ending search for my own sanity.

But the God’s could not foresee our fates.

They underestimated the will of love, as love is the essence of life.

No matter the distance or time, our souls have intertwined.

In my pursuit of happiness, wholeness, and closeness I found you.

As you are yourself

And

As I am myself

We are halves.

Together,

We have found the essence of life.

Love.

A power Gods will fear.

For no sickness, amount exertion, not even death could separate us now.

I believe in the creatures men on the sea speak of so fearfully

I believe that their bodies stretch across the oceans, their claws dragging the unruly into the deep blue depths

I believe in their power to change the currents and send a ship to its demise with a blink of their eye

As a child of cold waters and even colder winds, I am a creature of the ocean. I let mother’s waves wash over me and I believe her soft whispers over the shouts of the men who were born on land.

I believe that one day she will call me home, and I will live on and on until all men sing fearful tales of me.

Daughter of the ocean, and the ruler of the sea. That is what they will call me.

Rushing through the sea.

Feeling the salty waves crash above them.

Their voices calling out in harmony.

They sing of their pain.

Singing of the loss of her.

Slowly, a hole is replacing the spot where their gentle hearts once were.

They swore to love and protect her.

Their only sign of light in the dark depths of the ocean,

Is now rotting in Hell.

Married to Satan himself.

No matter how bright her light

The darkness inside consumed her.

And she reveled in it.