Author’s note: ‘Viaticus nunquam terminus’ is latin for ‘The journey never ends’.

Sunlight falling just so,

so I sit upon a carpet

of emerald.

Years and years have passed

and time has taken its toll,

for it halts for no one.

Not even you.

The scars are still fresh,

Oozing gashes of crimson

and the bleeding never

ceased.

Irony is cruel,

but life is crueller,

and those luminous eyes of

yours

haunt

my

dreams.

"Viaticus nunquam terminus,"

you used to whisper.

And I,

I with this sluggish

tongue of mine,

would stare, begging

for your explanation.

You laughed, full of life

and told me to wait,

my time would come.

'Viaticus nunquam Terminus'

etched upon an ancient stone.

Slow fingers pick away the dirt,

to uncover

hidden meanings.

Eyes fall upon familiar words

and lips silently form their shape,

bringing them to life.

A sigh, and my feet find

the ancient path

that in my silent pilgrimage

I made,

as the sunlight falls just so.