Title: Hope Is Lost

Author: Artemis D. Hunt

Author's Note: I'm thinking of making a prequel to Thoughts in Ecstasy. R&R so I can know if I should.

My heart aches. And why is complete folly. I know I should not love him. Though I do with all my being but he will never return my love.

I long to hold him in lover's embrace but he is cold and uncaring. Why? What made him so bitter? What stole his hopes, his dreams?

I wish to know so I can free him from the chains of his past. The misdeeds of him and others. To make memories fade at my touch and break the wall before his soul. But the task is daunting. So many years to burry the pain, and digging it up relives it all over again.

For now all I can do is watch as he lives embittered in this mortal realm. His suffering I would take, his pain I would make my own if I could. If he allowed it, but he is prideful in the end. And I know, to him, hope is lost.

End Notes: Okay can you guys please review so I can deside whether or not to write a prequel? Thanks. ^-^