1000 By: words I want to say

I look at you and you look away. We know what will happen to us, yet we still run. We are running from fate, from our unjust future. Lenne and Shuyin are our names, our love naïve and free.
"Beautiful brown eyes!" They would tease. "You're as skinny as a rail!" Well, that laugh I will hear no more.
Shuyin, you are blue eyed blonde with love so true. Wild and free, you taught me to be me. One thousand pounds of steel chain could not tie our love up and keep it locked.
You grab my hand and run, there are many footsteps following in close pursuit. We come to a dead end and stop. The guards surround us and point their guns. You look down at me and I look up at you. Your blue eyes sparkle in the dim light a sea of one thousand stars...
It only takes a second to pull a trigger that takes away seventeen years of life, life from us. The guards regret it the moment they do it. It only takes a second to pull a trigger that leads to a lifetime of guilt.
I fall on my back; you fall on your front. We are facing each other. I love you so much. I regret I will never see you again. Why oh why couldn't I say my one thousand words? And as this life leaves me, a single tear rolls down my cheek I could have cried one thousand...