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The Sock Drawer - 19. Shade's Remembrance
Shade's Remembrance
Red light infused dead dust with life;
he was the one with glowing eyes
who taught Shade how to live by lies,
the remnants of defeat and strife.
The closest friends, Blood Gem and Shade,
explored the caves of both their minds,
discovered both their separate kinds
in private ways their world forbade.
Their haven was a misty glade,
their sprig of love a secret thing,
so far removed from sunny spring
and all its gaudy plant parade.
It was a labyrinth of trees
and glinting rock in grey and black;
once there, they never wanted back
to beg forgiveness on their knees.
And beg they never did because
they found they were not wrong at all,
but still they had to heed the call
of daylight's world, its stifling force.
The obstacle they knew as life
came in the shape of family,
who found that the best remedy
for their son's state would be a wife.
They employed time and clever skill,
nursing an infatuation
with a beauty of his station
and bending Blood Gem to their will.
While strolling in the sunny park
with Blossom, fragrant, soft and sweet,
Blood Gem forgot through this new seed
his Shade, alone, left in the dark.
So glad and joyful was he, when
he told Shade of his future bloom
and all that Shade could hear was doom,
when turned from 'love' to his 'best man'.
Shade held a speech with so much cheer
as you find in a crumbling grave;
yet artful was he, and so brave
that cheer was all Blood Gem could hear.
The Shade, he did right by his friend.
Then after, fireworks did start -
those stars were his exploding heart
and all his light died in the end.
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