Act 5
A turn in the course of love
Day by day
Wandering astray
'mongst the green
Each golden moment
Cherished as precious jewels
Unforgettable.
Yet fate presses on
This farewell that's unbidden
Tears two souls apart
Silence! Volumes told,
Louder than oceans of words,
When hearts lay so close.
Twin hearts rent
By somber secrets,
Weeping blood.
Aka seems serene,
A picturesque composure
Her head in Ao's bosom.
Sadly, Ao looks on,
Woe inundated his soul,
Cheeks baptized by tears.
Like the morning dew,
Caressing her supple skin,
Ao wept silently.
Ao:
"You are not my prize,
For death shall come unwished for,
Alone, I shall be!
Am I to live on
With love that is beyond reach?
Ever the lonesome?
Paradise is here,
Since you came into my life.
Yet it shall shatter.
You've brought me the world,
Yet your death steals it away,
A joke that fate makes.
May I follow you
When you tread the paths of death,
To the netherworld?"
Chilling silence,
Kindred to summer's snow
Befell hearts so worn.
Softly Aka sighed
His demise would forerun hers,
A harsh reality.
An irony,
Love's great ridicule
Tortured her.
Life or death,
A chasm betwixt
severed them.
A love forbidden,
An impossible romance
Flourished unrestrained.
Error takes its toll,
Divine penalty's decreed:
Love destined to doom!
Beholding his visage,
She took his hand to her breast,
Quavering, she said,
Aka:
"Your words all bear Truth,
As life is ever so fragile,
Yet I am exiled.
The fields I have been,
Bore gaping wounds, pains of
Life's fleeting existence.
I am no human
Barely fireweed that fled.
Absconding torment.
Courage, I have not,
Nor heart to see love perish;
I fled all rived.
Freed from bounds,
That I am, Truly.
Freed from death.
Immortality,
There are those who sought its touch,
Yet others loathe it.
Of thousand choices
Why have u chosen but me?
Is there no other?
Ao, do think of me
What of it should you just die
Should I bear the burden?"
Disbelief,
Shock and confusion.
Ao struggles.
Ao:
"Freed of death,
Do you speak truly?
Aka love?
Are you graced
By time's small pardon?
Aka love?"
Aka:
"Ao, my dear,
This is my journey,
Unending.
A fireweed,
As I am so named,
A mere plant.
A bloom with spirit,
Who has forsaken her home,
To find another.
Though I have
Found solace in you,
Yet it ends.
The sojourn ends thus,
And my heart weeps tears of woe.
I cannot love you."
Her veracity,
Renounced the vice of worry,
Yet left her empty.
Brimming tears,
Sweet Aka sought flight
In the woods.
His limbs were all numbed,
Has fate righted all his wrongs?
With Aka's entrance?
His senses regained,
Ao traveled through the branches
Calling for Aka.
Ao:
"A mortal,
That I wished to be,
But am not.
Decades fleet me by,
Centuries I have witnessed.
Thousand years, I stand.
Loneliness,
That frozen caress
I abhor.
Return to me
Dear Aka, my love!
Return to me
And we shall never
Have to taste its empty touch.
Return dear Aka!
A lone oak spirit
For a millennium, I've been.
I bid it farewell.
Return dear Aka!
To my ever longing side!
Return to me love!"
Her voice robbed of words,
A millennium oak spirit,
That was the youth Ao.
Ao:
"Fear not dear Aka,
In these empty verdant hills,
We'll be together
Forever, my dear
Without the flames of sorrow,
Licking our heels."
Into his embrace,
There she flung herself, weeping
Tears of untold joy.
Thus became the love
Of the oak and fireweed
Of Ao and Aka.
Roots tangled with love,
Limbs embracing the other,
A visage of love.
An abandoned woods
Within a forgotten world
Bear quiet witness
To an everlasting love
That transcends age and time
THE END