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[September 16] [Final Fantasy VI] Love Poem
Title: Love Poem
Day/Theme: September 16/miss you quite terribly
Series: Final Fantasy VI
Character/Pairing: Cyan/Elayne
Rating: G
Word Count: 227
Notes: I did the best I could with Cyan's language, but I don't think I turned out 100% accurate to the game or to older English grammar. Also I had two ficlets in a row that turned out to be 227 words. Hmmm...
I wish I were a poet, my Elayne.
I would write thee a poem not about thy deep blue eyes, which looked with love on our son, or about thy hands, slim and white and always busy with sewing and cooking. Thy beauty was before me always, but was not what I loved best about thee.
I would tell thee how I loved thee, how I miss thee each day, how I feel as empty as unattended armor now that thou art not by my side. I would sing, like the minstrels who visited Doma, of my incomparable wife. For thou meant more to me than anything, and I would trade all the art of my hands to simply hold thee again.
I had to be a warrior, not a poet. I had to hold back from words and tears. Even when I was courting thee I had no proper charming phrases.
Only once did I tell thee I loved thee and thou hadst to ask me merely to hear me say it. Though I am glad I said it, glad that at least thou knewest. Had I known I would lose thee, I would have told thee every morning and night.
And now thou deservest a sonnet, from this my broken heart, yet I am no more a writer of sonnets than I am an engineer.
Yet I believe that someday I shall see thee again, my Elayne, in a place where there is no need for words. And the sky there shall have my love writ across it, and the flowers hold your praises.
Day/Theme: September 16/miss you quite terribly
Series: Final Fantasy VI
Character/Pairing: Cyan/Elayne
Rating: G
Word Count: 227
Notes: I did the best I could with Cyan's language, but I don't think I turned out 100% accurate to the game or to older English grammar. Also I had two ficlets in a row that turned out to be 227 words. Hmmm...
I wish I were a poet, my Elayne.
I would write thee a poem not about thy deep blue eyes, which looked with love on our son, or about thy hands, slim and white and always busy with sewing and cooking. Thy beauty was before me always, but was not what I loved best about thee.
I would tell thee how I loved thee, how I miss thee each day, how I feel as empty as unattended armor now that thou art not by my side. I would sing, like the minstrels who visited Doma, of my incomparable wife. For thou meant more to me than anything, and I would trade all the art of my hands to simply hold thee again.
I had to be a warrior, not a poet. I had to hold back from words and tears. Even when I was courting thee I had no proper charming phrases.
Only once did I tell thee I loved thee and thou hadst to ask me merely to hear me say it. Though I am glad I said it, glad that at least thou knewest. Had I known I would lose thee, I would have told thee every morning and night.
And now thou deservest a sonnet, from this my broken heart, yet I am no more a writer of sonnets than I am an engineer.
Yet I believe that someday I shall see thee again, my Elayne, in a place where there is no need for words. And the sky there shall have my love writ across it, and the flowers hold your praises.