A/N: Just a little poem that came to me & typed itself...:)
Setting: Post AWE. Elizabeth's POV. As she's waiting for Will, she thinks back to the last time she saw Jack ("Keep telling yourself that darling":). Doubting her choices, exhausted with waiting, she seeks consolation which only the sea can bring...
Disclaimer: Disney owns POTC.
Unrescued
Is this all that you had to say?
Feeling strangely absent from my own existence
I walked away
To not seeing you
Again. Away
I brush the memories and the tears which will never flow
Never to be seen by
You
by him
(He's not there... here). Here I am. Not
Being. Waiting. Unable to wait. I have waited for too long. I had always waited. And one day I stopped.
I found... Not noticing that the waiting was over. Not recognizing
(You)
Him not being
You not
Being him. And I got
Lost and back
To waiting for
Him
While waiting for
You
But you said nothing
To stop me from running
Away from the words that you would never say
To me, saying
All the other words already remembered, already gone, already
Between us.
Is this all?...
I looked
At you
One more time; did you
Notice? I looked for a moment that was strangely long too long
Enough
(That's what you said. Enough. Quite.)
Not quite. There was still time...
Have we got time
This time? Anytime...
You let me go
...left me to go and so I
Went.
Is that all?
Words. Some words. You could just tell me more words!!...
yet..
I would have listened to
have that one more moment over (and over) with
You.
But you said
Nothing more except for telling me to keep
Talking
so I am
Talking to
Nobody who would listen
To me talking to
Me who (?)
Can't listen anymore. No
More (and more)
Waiting for waiting
To stop.
It doesn't.
Is this all?
Still seeing your face which said more than enough but
Contradictory you
(Always was, so you)
Say
No
More (while thinking of
More)
And now there is no
More than
That (nothing) before I look
At the sea and
Drown (it sounds so
real!...) myself
(ghosts do speak after all, did you know?)
Water is the sky now that there is no
Sky anymore and you (no more
You!...?)
I look...
Around half-expecting to be
(I am no more, did you see?)
Rescued
By You?
Him? (less that half-)
Me? No
Me no
More me
And yet you are indeed
Pulling me into an embrace
How can it-
Your face, your eyes, your arms
Around me
How can-
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It can't.
It's just
Me. And you
In my mind which is
No longer
Me, but I
Can still see you...
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I thought it'd be darker here...