Hi Astrid
Your first thought when you read this will probably be that I'm terrible at getting my feelings across face-to-face, and you'd be right, so please bear with me...
When you found me on that cliff a week ago, thinking about my mother... this is how I was feeling. Sorry I couldn't say it then, but thank you for being there.
I love you.
Hiccup
Time long passed, long left ago,
Moved stranger and known in those oceans below.
Stood he on the shore, tides turning his eyes
And it spoke to his heart to speak so to the skies.
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Two worlds moved around him, a dance all their own
Entwining yet fractured, and spirits unshown
Found voice in his yearning and strength in the song
That tore him to places he'd one day belong.
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To hold love and heartbreak in each either hand,
See them slip through your fingers like fistfuls of sand,
Close those fists tighter, grasp to the last
Crave for your power and weep for the past.
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Cling to them harder, both all and the one
Lose sight of what comes when those fists are undone
You've leapt in the fire and throttled the dove,
You've clung to the heartbreak and lost all your love.
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But those arms they enround me, the noise it falls soft
The breath of the air and the life borne aloft
By the smiles of a thousand and the joy but of one
The one, she, who holds me, and I am undone.
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Can I smile on the future, for what it will show?
Yet I know now I smile on that time left ago,
For she picked up my heart, and helped me to know
To turn it to sundance on oceans below.
Wrote one paragraph of this and the rest kinda... happened. Sorry if it's hopelessly overwrought and overindulgent, it seemed apt at the time... we'll see. Thanks for looking!