Faraway

He sat they sat in silence
Of love eaten by demons
He looked he stared
A faerie king
But could not meet her
eyes
Her eyes
could not disguise
What it was she was feeling
But not even she knew

He bit his words
It was not his turn
To speak
She forbade him to love her

She held his hand in her dreams
He saw her in his sleep
Like a fly in a web
They were entwined
until death
That might or might not take them

They wanted what they could not say
She wished all her fears away

He held onto her so hard in his head
Offering up himself instead
The sacrifice that had to be made
She was a bottle away from her pain

She wondered if it would always be this way
And could not look at him the same
He fiddled with his phone
And felt innappropriately alone
She was right beside him as ever
Something changed

He was chained to another
A palace of choice
She didn't want him anymore

She listened but could not hear
His sigh that broke the world

She was somewhere
Over the rainbow
And he did not know
A scorpion he rode her
And promised not to sting
Because scorpions can't swim
But she could
And she trusted him

He hugged her goodbye
And would not squeeze too tight
To empty the breath of her small lungs
That did not breathe for him

They were done.