Breathing fast.
The jangle as the chain link snaps.
Came so far.
No time to stop.
Enchanting, yet macabre.
The tunnel faintly glows.
A story every child knows.
The locket sealed by fingers gossamer,
Would usher he and her.
Grinning cave before them, so far from the mundane.
Above the town where men conceal the little intrigue in their veins.
Under the humming lights of the five and dime,
Where she grew up all her life.
She felt the power in his eyes.
He's not afraid to let it shine.
So bow down.
The whispers start to roar.
The locket falls onto the ground.
A burst of flame erupts from the powers held deep in its core.
Shaking, the clock was stopped for good.
Marked to stay eternal, they're forever as babes in the wood.
Watching him.
The whispering was cold and grim.
The cavern sealed by rock and bone.
No place to call their own...
Descending cautiously, the sliver of a voice speaks.
"On the day you find mortality... the last days of magic will be."
Moon paled against the lights.
The colors were sublime.
Bathing across the lovers' eyes.
They drink the rain and mountain wine.
And though the days they were keeping,
The locket still beating.
A clock of strange design.
A hundred tiny moving hands and every one slowing in time.
So bow down.
The whispers start to roar.
The locket falls onto the ground.
A burst of flame erupts from the powers held deep in its core.
Shaking, the clock was stopped for good.
Marked to stay eternal, they're forever as babes in the wood.
credits
from Last Days of Magic,
released October 14, 2016
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