Hi!Hi! After the grueling endurance trilogy comes this cool chapter, which marks the start of the climax of When My Eyes Open , Haji's perspective : )
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Chapter 10: Waiting for YouLetters from Haji
He sat down at the side of the beach, he basked his face in the heat of the zephyr, the still and pure ocean reflected beautifully in the serene pools of his eyes...
He opened his cello case, and in a hidden corner, he pulled out letters...they were old and the paper was yellowed with age, but they were perfectly preserved and untouched and as a sign of love, he kissed them lightly, and opened each one carefully, for in these letters were written his hidden testamen, his agony, his suffering, and his love...
Everytime she would fall back into her sleep, he would write another one...now he looked back...looking at the letters he had alreday written, and a faint smile came to his face...
The first letter...
Bordeux, France
I walk alone in the lamplit city of Bordeux, it has beenonly a few days, yet I already feel the approach of the cold, long years that lie ahead of you and ahead of me...my love and my life, What kind of man could not confess his love for the woman he had sworn to protect? I was not able to tell you how much I loved you, and I still do...That is why I write this letter, in hopes of someday giving it to you, this letter, written in my own hand, with my own words, and from my heart...
Here I sit by the Window
Rain pours dow on the glass
Here I sit down in sorrow
Waiting for the time to pass
When will you awaken
Awaken to the sunrise?
When will you awaken
and open your eyes?
I remember the day I almost faded
From you and your lovely face
But you bought me back with your life's blood
Back in your warm embrace
Here I sit by the window
The rain stops at last
Here comes tomorrow
Let the past be the past
As I watch you sleeping
A thought comes to my mind
I wonder what you're thingking
I wonder what I will find?
But When your eyes do open
You will see I'll still be here
By your side protecting
The treasure to my heart so dear
For now I am still waiting
For your long dream to end
Waiting for you my darling
My broken heart will mend
Even as time will pass us by
If I am seperated from you
If my dear I were to die
But die not my love so true
If our memories you do forget
Even our times together
The promises that we have kept
In the depths of our hearts forever
I will remain your servant
Your gallant chevalier
Fighting beside you
protecting you day by day
I will continue hoping
what more is there to do?
I will continue waiting
Continue to love only you
The second letter
Moscow,Russia
It breaks my heart to see you, broken down and bleeding, my arms catch you in hopes of returning the smile on your face...Your eyes are dull, and long for sleep, and I I long for an eternity at your side...I love you Saya...and in your sleep I pray that you remember that...That I, your servant and friend, love you more than my own life...and now I wiat once more for you, and the smile that I will give you once you awaken...
Love is not measured
By the Ebbing of the Tide
Love can not be pressured
True love can never hide
Love can not be blurred
By the long, long years of weeping
Love like never fading words
Will in my heart be burning
The third letter
Hokkaido, Japan
I was not informed by the Goldschmidt family that you had awoken...perhaps my love for you is not strong enough to know how you feel...? I wish I had been there to protect you, when you had to face all those chiropteran alone...I am such a fool! How could I have not known! My love for you will never die, though my flesh be rotting and my bones have turned into dust...forgive me Saya, for I do not deserve your love...I wander alone in grief and dispair calling out your name...hoping my voice would reach you this time...
Whispers of a dream
The words that are not spoken
Fly on the wind's wings
Will my words reach out to you
Into the darkness that enshrouds you?
Will my love bring back
The smile you always wore?
Whispers of a dream
I will bear my love to you
On the Wind's wings
The fourth and last letter
Hong Kong, China
My heart suddenly feels a sudden ache...and I start feeling the weight of my long years crush down on my shoulders...in Vietnam...I was there my shoulder bleeding from the wound you inflicted...And I saw your eyes...so wild with fury and rage...not even I could give you your smile back...and at that moment I rather wished that I would live one life with you, then to spend eternity with my own shadow, waiting for you and your smile to come back...
Time flies by so fast
My lifeless heart beats softly
Waiting for Your safe return
Someday when the world has gone grey
I will take your hand
and lead you to the Fantasy
I have dreamed up for you
He closed the letter and a silver tear dropped from his eyes...he could not remember the last time he cried...how sad his life was...eternally in anguish, eternally in pain...once more he kissed the letters and hid them in the darkness of his cello case where even Saya could not see them...and he took out a pen and paper, and started writing in hopes of one day giving her the letters he had written in his own hand, with his own words, and from his heart...
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Slowly her eyes began to open, and she was aware that she could feel her heart beating...her hand touched the warm wall of the cocoon, and she murmured...
"Is it time?"
no answer...
"I guess not..."
She closed her eyes again, the fact that she was awake meant that her long dream was about to end, and all the years she had been waiting would finally come to a close as she counted the last grain of sand the covered a mile stretch of land in the beach...all she had to do was wait a little longer, and then, she would see them again, and she would be back in his arms once more...
She did not notice a small crack growing on the surface of the cocoon, or the soft music of a cello playing, or the tiny bit of sunshine that entered her darkness, that wouls summon her back to the light...
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Time for Saya to wake up people!!!!! Oh Yeah!!! Hope you liked this one of a kind/pretty solitary chapter...please continue to support and read When my Eyes Open, Till the next chapter!:)Thanks to my friends Midnight Cello and Beaf for giving me some parts of the poems that Haji wrote! And Thanks alot to our reviewees!
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