Beginnings

To kick off this series of blog posts, I think it’s only right to start with the beginning of the beginning. So, here are the opening lines of The Goddess of Hearts and The Fool of Hope, enjoy!

She awoke and looked to the Darkness.
Rising from her throne, The Goddess strode outwards listening closely.
He soon came stumbling into view, head down, clutching his chest.
And The Goddess listened to him singing his lament.

She swept me up
  in Her waltz across the heavens
She pierced my darkness with pinpricks of light
  Speckled with smiles
   and laughter
    and faith
     and Hope

She was the Stars in my Sky
  and just like them She was 
   always out of reach
    always too far
No matter how I grasped
  my palm would never take hold
The silence thrummed like thunder
  and the distance fell in upon us like the waves of 
   the sea that pulled Me and Her apart
We did not move
  and yet the space between was stretched and 
   wrenched
 
Well today the Stars 
  they weep
They drift one by one towards the waters that wall 
  our bond
The Sky splinters and they fall with Her between 
  the lines
The selfish Horizon
  it covets the Ash of the Celestials
   it robs and harbours the sparks
It dims Her from my life
  and hides Her from my eyes
 
Soon they will all fade
  and all I will be left with are the lights behind my 
   closed eyes
I see Her dance
  and remember that no matter how close I stepped
   I could never hold Her in my arms
The truth was even before the Sea
  the Sky 
   held Her from me
From the beginning I was never to see more than
  a shimmer

When all the lights of the sky have fallen
  and my wishes upon each one have reached silence
   my tears will cease to fall
    and my love for Her will be silent
 
Hope you have made a Fool of Me

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