Work in progress.
This is a sad piece, a piece in a long story I’m writing, a song sung by a woman who falls in love with someone she knows her family will be angry about, but she has chosen to be with him anyway (it’s kind of based on a traditional Japanese story highly modified for my purposes)
O Moon, shining white,
moving through the night alone,
fading out the stars
until all we see are you.
You see me, O Moon,
Standing in the shadows cast
Only by your light,
waiting alone, wrapped in white.
Trapped like you I run
Down the path that fate has picked,
My heart in his hands,
He knows not what he has caught.
My brothers must hate
what destiny has wrought here,
Human heart holds mine,
My joy is marred with sadness.
O Moon, lend me light,
to purify my sadness,
to bring my heart joy
so that I might be his bride.
Her song will be overheard by her youngest brother who will tell his other brothers, and when he does, bad things will happen.
I’m probably going to tweak it some more.
Sad and beautiful. Thank You. I posted the Anthology Link so you could see your page. ;0)