Disclaimer: Supernatural and all characters thereof are property of Eric Kripke and I claim nothing.
Author's Note: What follows is definitely new territory for me: breaking into the Supernatural fandom AND publishing a poetry piece AND publishing slash. Originally, I was going to write a Sam/Castiel (Samstiel?) one-shot romance with the title 'Would You Have Loved Me Better If You Didn't Have Wings' but upon typing the title, the verse just weirdly started flowing. (Between you and me, I think it was Cas's doing.) So here it is and I hope that you enjoy and please review!
Would you have loved me better
If you did not have wings
And time and tide would just wait
Once, for one man.
:
We might have sought out some shelter
In a reckless storm
Does the rain make it worth it
The shape of what we've made.
:
Through the sickness of our affection, purged
And turned our hearts to stone
The lies like a veil for truth
Begging for distance.
:
I would have pledged myself to your mercy
And let you see inside
Cut out the tongue that blasphemed
Righted all wrongs.
:
I see you beset by such mortal undoings
With all my propensity reflected in your eye
With light in your wake, the darkness mine
Some bitter grace.
:
You might have known what remains unbroken
Of which you laid claim
For absolution, I had prayed devotedly
Your kiss, the cure for fire.
:
Counted all stars and caressed your name
Yet rejected your divine touch
For love like a secret gate to ecstasy
That I would not survive.
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Death and destiny in constant war with us
Surrender to either is unjust
And to wait for one man
The time and tide is torn.
:
Be still, my one and lonely guard
Please forgive me of this sin
To dream that you would have loved me best
If only you did not have wings.
