Actions

Work Header

Rating:
Archive Warning:
Category:
Fandoms:
Relationship:
Characters:
Additional Tags:
Language:
English
Stats:
Published:
2020-07-03
Completed:
2020-07-31
Words:
2,319
Chapters:
9/9
Comments:
37
Kudos:
20
Bookmarks:
4
Hits:
280

Someone Will Remember Us, I Say

Summary:

Here is how the story goes: Initially, all lovers once were one being, but they were split into two by Iupiter in a fit of fearful rage. Ever since then, lovers have wandered the earth in search of their missing half, longing and yearning eternally for their soulmate, and Darling, so do I.

A collection of love poems bridging centuries and epochs to tell of all the tragedies and joys that Q and James might have lived through in a different time and place. Specific content warnings are gonna be added to the notes of every chapter.

Notes:

Essentially, I am dragging all of you through my preparation for in-depth lyrical analysis by writing poems according to epochal guidelines and topics. But all of these were initially used in German poetry, and I just decided that they needed to work for English poems as well. Cheers.

We are starting off with a baroque sonnet. :)

Chapter 1: The Last Reunion

Chapter Text

The Last Reunion

The howl of hungry hounds follows him tirelessly
As night now stalks and storms across the lonely lands
Before his eyes like diamonds that make no amends
And the death of time is trailing his steps mercilessly

Godless, pure beauty lives in his delicate hands
and coral lips like his may rule, and they may reign
Daisies that don‘t decay, he holds youth on a chain
That sinister scholar now owns these lonely lands

At sunrise, we met on a meadow on your land
At sunrise, you gave me the youth I gravely need
At sunrise, I gave you pain only you understand

The hounds don‘t know why it's me with whom you bleed
The hounds don‘t know that in love you took my hand
May nature, my dear, birth us anew as a singular weed.

 

Centuries later, the skeletons of two men were found, covered by weeds, flowers, and the roots of a nearby oak binding them to the earth.
Their hands tightly interlaced with each other, heads turned towards each other. There's no need to disturb a peaceful grave.