"In Those Nights" by Chelsea Castonguay

In Those Nights

And in those nights

he was strong and

his skin cool to her touch.

In those times of darkness

when the stars had failed to shine

He was there for her, using his

spells to heal her, and his calming

words to set things right within her mind

When she herself could hardly say a thing

to comfort him

And she wondered how long

his strength could last

when it was cruelly being

ripped away from within.

The magick he had embraced

Was killing him slowly

And she was angry

She wondered how she would

last, a fragile creature against

the evils in the world, for she knew

it would no be long before she was

alone, and he would be gone

to a plane she could not reach

A plane she doubted even existed

But his shining eyes told her he believed

And when he held her to him in the suffocating

darkness, she listened to the beating of his heart

and waited for it to stop.

C. Castonguay