“Unbroken by Time”

By Naomi Litwin

I knew her ere the world was changed,

When the stars gave different signs.

In the wake of myth, of legend and lore,

Our paths they did aline.

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‘Twas in the night I stole her hence,

When the moon could dare not shine

And I bade her near before the dawn

Saying, “give me what is thine.”

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Each hour her heart grew rife with fear,

When the sun would die in the west.

Yet, in the fated dusk I came to her,

And there our love professed.

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I knew her then in another life,

When the tides would see unrest.

In midnight shadows of sea and sky,

Her heart came by bequest.

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Anon in peace and then in war,

When the storms were fringed in fire.

I bathed my hands in tyrants blood

While hers were ever pure.

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She kissed me beneath pennoned stars

When the ground trembled with ire.

And we spoke of bygone ages past

And a future to aspire.

Honorable Mentions will be posted next week!