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The Meadows<br />
<br />
<br />
Soft winds rustled the leaves of the tree<br />
Atop the emerald hill.<br />
It was a lone tree,<br />
Thick and wise with age.<br />
Many things has it seen,<br />
And many more does it know.<br />
<br />
In the time of its youth,<br />
The two children would play beneath its shading branches,<br />
Escaping the smoldering heat<br />
Of the sun at midday.<br />
<br />
They sat in the grass,<br />
Enjoying summer’s warm breeze.<br />
At no more than the age of six,<br />
They loyally returned to their tree each day.<br />
<br />
It overlooked a green meadow,<br />
Riddled with wildflowers of all colors.<br />
The two children would lean against the tree,<br />
Enjoying spring’s perfect beauty.<br />
<br />
They did this each day without fail,<br />
And each day they were together,<br />
They realized how much more than friendship this was;<br />
How much stronger.<br />
<br />
She could not live without him,<br />
Nor could he without her.<br />
For they were meant to be<br />
Forever together.<br />
<br />
Picked by the angels,<br />
They were in love.<br />
It was true love,<br />
In its rarest form.<br />
<br />
As they got older,<br />
They knew their love for each other was great.<br />
So they would sit beneath the tree,<br />
Staring into each others eyes.<br />
<br />
They kissed in the fields<br />
Beneath the tree watched by the soft blue sky.<br />
And they held hands<br />
As they returned home from the meadows.<br />
<br />
As summer’s heat began to die,<br />
They would sit closer and closer.<br />
They kept each other warm,<br />
And a euphoric sense of perfection was upon them.<br />
<br />
Each day they did this<br />
For years and years.<br />
Through all the seasons,<br />
And they loved each other more than life itself.<br />
<br />
Well into their teens now,<br />
Each day they welcomed each other with a warm embrace.<br />
They stood there in each others arms beneath the blooming tree,<br />
Like a picture from a fairy tale.<br />
<br />
One hot summer’s day,<br />
When all was right,<br />
He arrived at her side,<br />
And kissed her softly.<br />
<br />
He then gracefully kneeled at her feet,<br />
And pulled out a small black velvet box.<br />
He opened it and asked for her hand<br />
As the wind gently ruffled her long flowing skirt.<br />
<br />
Before he could even get the words out,<br />
Her joyous tears were falling like rain.<br />
Instantly, she accepted,<br />
And held him tightly.<br />
<br />
They were due to wed in the early spring,<br />
Under their tree.<br />
Her bouquet would come from the meadow,<br />
And it would be perfect.<br />
<br />
Still, each day they met.<br />
They danced in the fields<br />
And their love was so beautiful,<br />
So right.<br />
<br />
As the days grew cold and dew had frozen the grass,<br />
There was a solemn feeling about them,<br />
As though a foreboding weight had been dropped upon their shoulders,<br />
Just two months before their wedding.<br />
<br />
On the day of the first snow,<br />
She walked to the empty tree.<br />
She was not greeted by her love,<br />
But instead, a note.<br />
<br />
She slowly grabbed it,<br />
Felling so hurt, confused, and alone.<br />
She opened it slowly and carefully,<br />
As her forehead creased with worry.<br />
<br />
Reading it quickly,<br />
She then ran home.<br />
She looked into the old cracked mirror upon her dresser and saw her eyes,<br />
So untouchable and innocent as the new fallen snow.<br />
<br />
She hid her face in her hands,<br />
And began to weep.<br />
The note of her one true love<br />
Was tragic.<br />
<br />
He had joined the army,<br />
And may never be seen again.<br />
He likely would not return alive—<br />
If he returned at all.<br />
<br />
Horrified,<br />
She slowly slid on her wedding dress.<br />
She grabbed her rope,<br />
And ran out the door.<br />
<br />
She was invisible against the snow,<br />
Until she reached the tree.<br />
Quickly, she wrote a note on her sweet smelling paper,<br />
And placed it upon a tiny branch.<br />
<br />
She grabbed her rope,<br />
And tied a special knot<br />
Before throwing it over a sturdy branch,<br />
And pulling it tight.<br />
<br />
Standing on the top of her toes like a cat ready to pounce,<br />
She gently fits her head through the loop,<br />
And stares into the meadows<br />
One last time.<br />
<br />
The noose tightens around her neck,<br />
And a single tear runs down her cheek;<br />
Her last gift,<br />
To her life’s only love.<br />
<br />
Two days before her wedding,<br />
He returned.<br />
He went to the tree to find his bride, dead—<br />
With nothing more than a note.<br />
<br />
Heartbroken, he gingerly approached the corpse,<br />
And took the note she left.<br />
He opened it carefully<br />
And looked at it in disbelief.<br />
<br />
“I will always love you…”<br />
He read no louder than a whisper.<br />
“…and now we can be together forever.”<br />
Forever and ever.<br />
<br />
He had nothing left to live for.<br />
In desperation,<br />
He searched for a hope,<br />
But none could be found.<br />
<br />
The night before his wedding,<br />
He returned to the meadow<br />
In which his bride lay dead.<br />
His only love, perished.<br />
<br />
He approached the tree<br />
And stood under its thick limbs.<br />
He stared at his bride’s hanging body and spoke,<br />
“Forever.”<br />
<br />
He closed his eyes,<br />
And the metallic taste of the gun was all he knew.<br />
He pulled the trigger,<br />
And its shot destroyed the tranquility of the meadows.<br />
<br />
Some say, their spirits still dance in the fields,<br />
Or sit by the tree.<br />
Whatever the truth may be,<br />
A darkness still hovers like a thick fog.<br />
<br />
For there is poetry in despair,<br />
And a lovely beauty hidden in sorrow.<br />
In death there is peace,<br />
And in peace,<br />
There is love. <br />
<br />
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