Sun and Shadow

AN: The genders are wrong for the light/dark dichotomy in the song. I know that. But I thought that this was a good enough idea that I just ignored that unpleasant little fact.
Sun and Shadow is by Mercedes Lackey and can be found in the songs-appendix near the back of Arrow's Fall.

What has touched me, reaching deep
Piercing my ensorceled sleep?
Darkling lady, do you weep?
Am I the cause of your grieving?
Why do tears of balm and bane
Bathe my heart with bitter rain?
Why this longing? Why this pain?
What is this spell you are weaving?

I looked at the screens in front of me. Kari's face was on all of them. Why did I care about her so much? She was my enemy, after all. But somehow, I could not bring the full force of my wrath as Emperor down on her. Why? What made her so special?

Sunlight singer, Morning's peer—
How I long for what I fear!
Not by my will are you here
How I wish I could free you!
Gladly in your arm's I'd lie
But I dare not come you nigh
For if I touch you I shall die—
If I were wise I would flee you.

Ken. Why did I no thate him, as the rest of us did? Though outwardly bent on his complete destruction, why was I really ready to forgive him all he did? I wanted to seek him out, not to destroy him, but to turn him. But I dared not try. He'd destroy me if I came to close.

Shadowdancer, dark and fell,
Lady that I love too well—
Won't you free me from this spell
That you have cast around me?
Star-eyed maid beyond compare
Mist of twilight in your hair—
Why must you be so sweet and fair?
How is it you have bound me?

Why did you have to come here, Kari? Why did you need to make me consider every tenet I've lived by as Emperor? How has your light attracted a child of the dark, like a moth to a flame?

In your eyes your soul lies bare
Hope is mingled with despair;
Sunborn lover do I dare
Trust my heart to your keeping?
Sunrise means that I must flee—
Moonrise steals your soul from me;
Nothing behind but agony,
Nothing before us but weeping.

Ken, why? Why did you chose this path that leads you away from the light? I can tell that you have conflict within you still about the path you chose. Do you know why I come to the Digiworld? It is to heal your heart and turn you to my path, the path of light. But every time I come, I am too scared and retreat to the real world.

Sun and shadow, dark and light;
Child of day and child of night,
Who can set our tale aright?
Is there no future but sorrow?
Will some power hear our plea—
Take the curse from you and me—
Grant us death, or set us free?
Dare we to hope for tomorrow?