A/N: Written for the 100 prompts challenge on the Poetry Craze, prompt #002 – illusion. Also for the Freeverse Frenzie Competition, poem 64. And because this is my favourite scene in all of Clannad. :)


Distant Dreams Behind the Veil

I want this all to end.

That warm ember
was too weak to stay forever.
The winter…had snuffed it out
leaving only the bitter cold
behind.

Why do we humans
chain ourselves down
with love?

I should have walked on that day
without aim; if I had, that happiness
would not have been undone.

I could have gone on then
in that drifting dream of mine
behind the snowy veil.