IRIS

He was the ray of light in my ever darkening day, the only place I found comfort was with a controller in my hands and the hum of a N64 in my ears. Sometimes, when it all gets too much, I just listen as the windmill goes around and around and Guru-Guru plays that haunting song...Sometimes, I simply sit and watch the days pass over Hyrule Field. But what I really wanted...was kept from me by a screen. "I'd give up forever to touch you, cause I know that you feel me somehow" I whispered, reaching out, but knowing i'd feel nothing but static and glass. "You're the closest to heaven that i'll ever be, and I don't want to go home right now" I often dreamed he'd listen...I often wish he could. "All I can taste is this moment"

I often wondered if he'd ever reply...

In Hyrule, he lied on the cool grass of Hyrule Field, as Epona grazed beside him. The wind brought whispers, and his slender ears twitched "And all I can breathe is your life" he answered the wind.

I sighed, drawing away from the screen. There was still a dark king to conquer..."Cause sooner or later it's over" I sighed again, picking up the controller halfheartedly.

And he replied once more with the very words I did. "I just don't want to miss you tonight"

"And I don't want the world to see me" He said to the wind and the stars. "Because I don't think that they'd understand" I cried to a screen and a cartridge. Nobody would ever truly understand how I felt...nobody knew, nobody could ever know. They don't know what it's like to love a dream, a unreality, a figment of fiction. They didn't know what it was like to love what you'd never have.

"When everythings made to be broken..." He closed his eyes, pushing away painful memories.

"I just want you to know who I am" My tears became stronger.

I dropped the controller, drying my eyes and lying back in my beanbag. "You can't fight the tears that aint coming."

He rolled onto his side, ears straining to catch the wind's words. "Or the moment of truth in your lies"

"When everything feels like the movies" I muttered

"Yeah you bleed just to know you're alive" he answered, though i'd never hear it.

I just wanted him...how I longed for a peaceful time, a world away from my own, a Hyrule.
How he wanted to know whos words the wind brought him, someone who understood.

"And I don't want the world to see me"
"'Cause I don't think that they'd understand...."
"When everythings made to be broken"
"I just want you to know who I am"

"I just want you to know who I am."

Authors Notes

This will always be my song to him. Always.
Just a little birthday present to myself, it's my birthday tomorrow.