Author's Note: This takes place after a fierce battle with Naraku amd his demon army.
Silence
Rain falls from a starless night
Washing away the tears
That dance down her cheeks
Running fingers tinged with red
Through silver silk hair of the head in her lap
Thunder crashing, moving the earth
Quieting her gentle sobs and distant pleas
Which float on the storm swept winds
Out and over the turbulent, black seas
Gentle fingers trace soft features
Of the still face that she cradles
Breathing shallow to match the breath of him
Red stains red, darkening in the moon swept night
Engulfed in its pale, gloom and glow
Eyes of softened amber open to meet those of a gentle hazel
She is reflected in his dimming eyes
He is reflected in her pain
She whispers to him and he hears
But fades away, the moon fading with him
She holds his broken, mortal body to her
Whispering to him what he cannot hear
The sky weeps for them, its pain as endless as hers
Voices fill in the silence between crashes and cries - silence
Cut short by a silhouetted figure, black as the night around them
Illuminated by the sky's grief
A solemn face and battled scarred physique
Looms like death above her; emotion escapes her
Mind as numb as the body it lingers in
Strong hands push her into the soft mud and disfigured ground
Falling, she does not fight; a face as somber as his
Peering at the death cloaked figure from behind
A blackness of night and a grayness of defeat
Flat, commanding words uttered through thin, nearly motionless lips
Seeming to aplomb the thunder and lightning
A pearl wall of light fills her blank eyes and she is blinded
Tears dried and rain ceases to fall
All is silent in her hell again
Alone, still, in her eclipse; sitting mutely
As the night cloaks her - untouchable
From the dark comes a hand, pulling her in -
Into a warmth that could not be
Into softness and scent that should not be
Tears fall, tracing the old down her streaked face
Rough claws - gentle - brush them away
Eyes as golden as the bare, exposed moon burn into her
Pause
Lips meet in a cold night
Relief meets surprise; love to love
No questions asked, no words spoken
Eyes say all that is needed
Lifted into tepid arms that were once frore - dead
Away into the twilight forest, bathed in stars and moonlight
Greeting them in life when left in death
Soft breathing from warm shadows
A dying storm lights up a ascetic face; no emotion
Watching the final act of a play as actors leave center stage
No grief, no happiness; nothing plays across
The pallid face of a brothers' savior
The last light of a dying sky
Reveals a glimmer of soft emotion in statuesque eyes
Lost in the welcome darkness of the turbulent night; gone
All is silent again.
