Title: Violet Hill
Pairing: Gideon Prewett/Marlene McKinnon
Author's note: this was written for the Love Song challenge on HPFC. I obviously was inspired by the song Violet Hill by Coldplay; I own none of the lyrics. If you can listen to the song while reading, it's even better. So... I think this deserves a little bit of explaining, a little background story, which is hard to convey in a poem. Let's say Violet Hill is a hill where Gideon & Marlene used to go to be alone. This can be read alongside my oneshot I'm a Loser: they never said they loved each other, even if they did. The 'they took my love up to Violet Hill' line doesn't literally mean that Marlene was buried on that hill (I doubt they'd have gone to a hill where there's a cemetary) - it's more a metaphor for an afterlife Gideon doesn't really believe in, but wants to believe in because it would mean Marlene is resting in a place they both loved. The lines in italics are what Gideon imagines Marlene would say to him. And this takes place on the day after she was buried, hence the "only yesterday".
Violet Hill
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I took my love up to Violet Hill
There we sat in snow
All that time I was silent still
(If you love me, won't you let me know?)
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Together we lied on the white, cold ground
Watching the clouds pass us by
Being ourselves when no one was around
If you love me, why say good-bye?
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We knew we were wasting our youth
Leaving life and colours and truth
To be able to love, trust and believe
If you love me, why leave?
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I don't want to be a soldier with no soul
Or the captain of a lone, sinking boat
Away from you, in a sea so remote
If you love me, why not make me whole?
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They took my love up to Violet Hill
On a long and dark December
All that time she was silent still
(If you love me, won't you remember?)
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The sky was grey only yesterday
And yet now it seems so far away
There was wind and light and snow
(If you love me, won't you let me go?)
Now that I've tried to explain it so it's not too confusing, please tell me if you liked it?