Two Beats of a Weary Heart
A TVD Poem by PatchsFallenAngel
They lay grey, side by side
dressed in penguin suits she knows
they'd have despised.
Elena ached
for the forever she never wanted
'til now.
Her heart beat two tethered rhythms
two different beats: STE-FAN-DA-MON-STE-FAN-DA-MON...
STE-FAN, her once a upon a time.
DA-MON, her once in a lifetime.
STE-FAN, a kiss that warmed her
on the coldest of days.
DA-MON, a comet flashing by, burning the sky
like rubber.
Their deaths came as Autumn leaves fell.
Heartbreaking, inevitable, a hope
of something new.
Winter was cold and dark as the grave
those two beats echoing in her lonely chest.
Spring arrived, laying fresh flowers on tombstone,
bringing a young crow to the mausoleum door.
By Summer, grief melted from her drying eyes,
life shone through cracks in the trees.
The dull ache inside, like the bruise of an apple:
the sweetness of the fruit never changed
but the taste was never quite the same.
