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Idyllic
What is this place?
I have no memory of anything before getting here, I just feel as if I was searching for someone very important to me.
But I don’t have that desire ever since I’ve known you.
I don’t know what I’m doing here, I don’t know what is this place, nor why time doesn’t seem to pass…
But it’s alright, as long as you stay by my side.
I wake up. “When did I fall asleep?”
It’s morning already. “Why can’t I remember how the nights are?”
And there you are smiling at me. “Have you ever not done so?”
- Seiya. –You call me, as you always do.
I feel your hand in my face, slightly caressing me. And I wish that your smile never gets erased.
That you always look at me this way.
I say your name, but for some reason I’m unable to remember it. Could it be because you have so many?
You get up, taking my hand. Without ever changing that sweet smile that you only give to me.
This place is so peaceful and beautiful that it’s hard for me to imagine any other place. Or even remember it.
But it’s alright, as long as you stay by my side.
You land on a field full of white flowers, where your dress gets lost among the endless petals and your face contrasts even more against your violet hair.
Your eyes, your skin, your hands, your scent, the softness of your hair.
All of that is burned deep within my memory, despite not being able to recognize myself even if I looked into a mirror, or at my own reflection in the water.
- Tenma! –You call my name again, while I fleetingly see my image in the clear waters of the fountain where you like to wash hour face.
Why don’t I recognize the person that looks back at me?
I say your name again, but again I’m unable to remember it.
Maybe it’s because I can only remember you like the Angel… No! Like the Goddess that rules my happiness and my steps in this world.
But you look so human! If you were a Goddess, I couldn’t stand it, because somehow, I sense that you would be forbidden for me.
You grab my face with both hands and I, as always “why would it be any other way?”, let you do your will.
I feel your lips against mine, your arms over my neck, the light weight of your frail body against mine, healing my wounds “when did I get these?” and erasing any solicitude from my mind with one single look from you.
Is this Paradise?
- Pegasus! –You call me, this time without the smile.
Once more, despite everything, I’m far away from you… But it’s just that I want to know. I wish to remember it.
It’s midnight and the moon falls over your naked skin, while your hair gets confused with the wind and I feel your breath under me.
Your eyes are stuck against mine, your hands don’t let me go and I feel immensely happy. “I will die if this ends! I will die if I’m not at your side!”
For a moment I can remember it and that’s why I smile.
Sasha, Saori… so many names but a single constant: Athena.
I was finally able to remember your name.
I feel your touch again and I’m able to remember myself.
Tenma, Seiya, so many names but a single constant: Pegasus.
Little does that matter, little does it matter that I forget all about it again, as long as we’re in our Paradise.
Together.
The end.