1996

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Of Castles and Shadows (based on a dream)

April 1st, 1996

Of Castles and
Shadows

Written Sometime in 1996
by Zyriana – Based on a Dream of the Same Time

The cobblestone steps are
what I remember – grey in color and always so cold on bare feet. The rooms
immense, but barely furnished, except for the grand pieces placed
precisely where he wanted them. I remember I left something there….

Was it my essence I left?
Would I still be roaming even now? Perhaps not, or I would surely
know….

The windows had no
glass. Now that I remember. The breeze from below, that is hard to
forget….

The chill of the
cold even as I slept. Now that I remember – but what was it I
left…

It’s still there… the
memory of the maroon color of life, flowing down the dark halls. It
happened once, I was there, I know….

If you stopped for a moment, you could hear his steps. Was
it fear that I left? No, no – that was not it, not that…

I remember pressing my hand to the walls – cobblestone and all,
my fingers so long and elegant. Even with him behind me, and closing
fast… I stopped for a moment, just to feel the coolness beneath my
grasp….

It was ages ago,
of that I know. The damp dark hallways were mine once. I roamed at
night, there was so much to discover. I collected treasures and hid them
away. But I left something there, not treasures, I have no use for those
and surely would not be searching for such….

A ring perhaps? I had so many. Elegant rubies
and emeralds, the cost I’ve no idea. But no, this is not material I left
behind. It’s worth is more to me than that….

I
remember the wails of a small newborn child, her name I’ve since
forgotten. Was it her that I left? No… she came with me. Of this I know. He
took her life too, in the shadows below….

What was it I left? It’s so important now. But I
won’t know, not yet… it won’t come to me now.

If you see the shadows the castles cast, please
look for me and find what I’ve lost. I’ll be there too, I journey there
quite often – as I dream at night, and when my thoughts wander during
the day – I travel there myself… to find what I’ve lost.

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