Know

Know that I love you
When the seasons pass
As the leaves fall
And winter comes at last

Know that with each passing
Seconds, minutes, hours
Weathered by storms
I stand unfazed, unconquered.

Know that I have as always
Yielded to emotions
Of love, of hate, of peace
Longing of the heart unquenched.

Know that I yearn to touch again
The sky that has ever been
Clouded by the storm summoned
By you and you alone.

Know that I will weather
Come hail or thunder or more
Alive I will, I am, I shall
Till tomorrow, another day.

Graveyard

I dug deeper, deeper than how I usually do.
Beyond the usual six feet for eternal repose.
Unto the abyss, lit only by the flickering flames
Of my weary, dreary, wailing soul.

Dirt touched my face as the spade hit the ground,
Back, arms, legs ached with every shovel.
The darkness have to be laid to rest, I said
Underneath no shallow graves.

The demon cannot see the light of day
Nor can it ever dream of rising to the surface
In the earth’s embrace it should be bound,
Never to be released from its grasps.

I must go furthermore, until the yoke is done
A few inches, or a mile or even more.
Be wary for tis a seed that can sprout,
As should it be, my world is done.

And as I hit bedrock, the end which I have yearned
I lay it down to sleep, and pray it never wakes
Soil and stones come seal us before daybreak.
Let the requiem begin for the undeparted.

Qilin

Tales of Damsels and Dragons

Once upon a time
A knight I was
Off to save a damsel
My lance have been sworn.

She, kept in a tower of lies
Bound by her beloved dragon
In chains of love and lust
Drowning in distrust.

In my shinning armor
I used all of my power
With her, I fled to a land
I thought was faraway.

In the peace of our escape
We gazed at each others eyes
And with the passing days
Our hearts have aligned.

Her captivity became
A fleeting, distant memory
As excitement filled us
With a beating in her belly

But fate was indeed cruel
Perhaps cursed we were
Lost, truly to our dismay
Our precious little angel.

I thought we can be
Closer, and stronger
With each tribulation.
But err I have reckoned

For nightmares haunt me
As I sleep beside her
I dream of a damsel
Turning into a dragon.

So I wake up one morn
To find she be reborn
Succumbing and failing
To keep her human form

She set met up on a tower
Chained her sincere lover
Becoming what she once loathe
My trust she forsook.

Rivers flowed from my eyes
As my heart sundered in pain
I tried to turn blind
But thoughts linger in my mind.

Her monstrosity haunts me
Chasing me in slumber
And I will myself, be number
But I know I cannot survive.

So on this stormy night
I braved myself for worse
To break what binds me
I shattered my soul.

As I fall into the abyss
I took one last look
At someone who was the victim
But now the despicable crook

A viscous cycle created
A process I do not wish to be part
And only in me leaving
Can the healing truly start

My armor has been laid down
My lance gone to oblivion
I fade into the darkness
To find what make me whole.

In the abyss I lie for now
A knight I was once
Then a slayer of a dragon
And slain by a dragon of my own.