This was a response to all we require is everything's OTP Freeverse Poetry Challenge. Hope you like it and please review!
Sky as dark and endless as his eyes
Ground stained crimson with the blood of the innocent
They stood there in the night, hearts pounding as they
Stared across the disaster area.
Tears flowed freely
Just the two of them
They knew there would be more death than this
But they were ready for anything.
They had spent their life preparing
Knowing this was the future
Full of death and
Grief as loved ones were murdered.
But they were here together
And that's all that mattered right now.
Cries of pure agony filled the thin air
As the injured died slowly;
Motionless bodies littered the ground,
Their lifeblood draining into the hard earth.
And she rested her head on his chest,
As he stroked her unkempt hair, she allowed his to pull her close.
He bent his head, his long black hair shielding his eyes
As tears,
Real tears,
Threatened to fall from his eyes
For the first time since
His father.
She didn't notice, but she knew he was grieving too;
They all were.
They stood there, not moving, not speaking;
But their silence was all they needed to know that no one was coming back.
Not her redhead friend or his brother;
Not the headmaster, the most powerful wizard ever;
Not the most evil wizard to ever exist, but that was just a windfall;
And, most of all, the Boy Who Lived.
The boy who had saved them all by going into that forest and given his life
For her, and him,
And everyone else who had ever been threatened.
She looked up into his endless eyes, seeking comfort.
He gazed back, burning into her mind, and slowly leaned down
And gave her the only comfort he could as his lips brushed hers gently.
The tears ran freely as she recalled the Chosen One's last words said to her:
"I know now, and I think you do too."
The pair, too caught up in each other, failed to notice
A silhouette moving just inside the dense, shadowed forest behind them
The shape staggered, then collapsed
And the sound of the air being driven from starved lungs finally
Caught their attention.
She stepped towards the figure, started running and crumpled at his feet
He watched their joyful reunion, which quickly turned
As she informed the Chosen One of the losses that were quickly mounting.
His green eyes darkened and a small moan escaped him as he remembered.
But it wasn't all lost; he still had her. She still had her dark wizard.
That's all they remained on: The present. They would survive this War.
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