✦ Lamentation ✦ Lamentation The cries of the Soul Like a flowing River dancing along the stones Screams The wails of grief Like the howls of a wolf Like the song of the bird Lamentation A beautiful song One of pain One of past joys One of grief The River's Lament ~ When RiverSong was brought the news of the death of her closest friend, DanceflyFlicker, she broke. Her vocal cords tore a wail so desperate she lost her voice for days. She thought back on their memories together, though few, she loved Dancefly dearly. She never got to tell them how she felt, her dear Peanut. She hoped they'd visit her from whatever afterlife they went to someday, maybe she'd join them eventually. Grief is a funny thing. A beautiful, yet agonizing mix of pain, love, reminiscence. The grief of one a love was never admitted to is a new kind of pain. One of a flower that never bloomed. A life cut short. The heartbreak of words never spoken, a song never sung. A River stopped by a dam~ From RiverSong's Perspective "The day Peanut was torn from my life...was the day I felt my first true heartbreak. I felt as if my paws had been knocked from under my feet. I thought...I thought there would be more time. I thought I had time to tell them...who knew loving someone in a thousand silent ways could become a permanent silence...We were a story I never dared to begin, but the ending was written before I ever got the chance to write the first page...How do you explain to the world, tell me, that someone was your everything? How do you explain that when all you'd ever been to the stars was friends? I still look for them on the border, waiting to tell them stories that'll never reach their ears. They may never know how much of my heart joined them as they left this world. I could survive never being loved in return, but how am I expected to survive never getting to speak the words that fear held back? I still find myself wondering how you would've reacted had I told you. Would you laugh? Would you hate me? Or would you tell me you loved me to? The pain of never knowing the answer to these will be my undoing. Peanut, I will carry my love for you to the grave. Maybe someday, when we reunite among the stars, maybe then I'll be able to tell you. But for now, the words sit unspoken in my heart. Peanut, I love you. As long as I live, you will not be forgotten. I still count the stars, wondering which one is you."
✦RiverSong's first SRP ✦ If anyone would wanna draw some art for this that'd be lovely :)
