My Silent Guardian
I have a silent guardian. He watches over me in my sleep, fighting away nightmares and such. And if I'm real quite I can feel his soft touch. I've tried hard to see him but I never really do, except for one night when I finally saw you.
I opened my eyes, on the darkest of nights, and standing over my bed was a figure of grey. I thought at first that it might be a ghost, and what you were when I saw you I will never know, but all I is that you looked just like snow.
When you saw that I noticed, you ran from my room. I got out of bed and I get myself dressed, then I went out into the dark misty town. You had disappeared, though I heard your heart cry. You wanted to see me, I you, but you didn't want to face my, for your eyes were no longer blue.
I followed the wails from that hurt heart of yours, all the way to the trails, and then to the shores.
And then there you were, sitting up on a cliff, staring out to the waters. I climbed up the cliff and sat next to you. And together we sat there, staring out to the blue.
Then you looked at me and I looked at you. You tried to seem happy, but I knew that you weren't. Your eyes held the sadness of a thousand sad men. But even in sadness, you still tried to smile.
Then you opened your mouth and began to speak, only no sound could come out; not even a peep. You stopped talking halfway, and put your hand to your throat. And then all the sadness seemed to erupt on your face. Your eyes filled with gloom and your smile upside-down. I wanted to cry seeing you in such pain.
Then I knew what to do, the idea it just hit me. I got up on my knees and told you to do the same. We stared at each other for the longest time, then I put my hands on your shoulders, or as best as I could, then I closed my eyes.
For a second was silence, I thought it hadn't worked, but then with a bang my head filled with words. All the things you'd been dying to say to me. Your heart seemed to mean as these love words poured out. I felt warmth through my body, I was happy with you.
Then the words stopped and I opened my eyes. I saw you there, you put my hands at my sides, then you put your hands on my shoulders, and you closed your eyes. My thoughts then poured out, like a great waterfall. I told you everything and anything at all.
It seemed like hours that the two of us sat there, exchanging our stories, just like old times. But then a time came, it was near morning hour. We went back to the village, our last minutes together.
You put me in bed and gave me a faint kiss, then waved as you left. And I knew at that moment, my eyes welling with tears, that my silent guardian had now left for good. I thought of the words that you and I had exchanged; though I forgot all of them, only some remained.
Yuna, whenever the wind blows, that's me calling your name. If you're in danger, I'll be at your side. I may leave you now, and not appear anymore, but always remember that I love you and as long as your heart goes on...I'll be there.
I pondered these words for many days after, wondering every time I heard the wind if that was him calling me. And on some nights, if I wake up from a dream, I can hear a faint whistle, and I know that's my cue, to go to the beach.
My silent guardian was never seen again, but I knew, as he said to me, that as long as my heart went on, he'd be there. I can fell him even now, as I am being married. And I know he's happy for me. That's because he will always be my Silent Guardain.