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Even as time bends, loops and straightens; time and time again, nothing can come between hearts that recognize each other as home.
Their story might never end happy, who's to say? The time spent together, happily is what makes it all worth it. That sliver of heaven on earth, in each others embrace dulls the inevitable heartache to come. How unfair for a love so pure and true; to be destined for doom and gloom from the start. What has been done to make such a curse be born to two people just wanting to live and love one another. Was it the Gods above? or was their paths not meant to intertwine and by challenging such a thing a fate has been written and set in stone for them.
Has their union forsaken others others in their past lives and this is the price to pay? Heartache.
The moment they first see each other makes everything feel frozen in time. As if the world itself is granting them this moment in time to breath a sigh of relief. An strange sensation comes over them, almost as if there's a pit forming in their stomach; trying to recall what is to come so they can be deterred from their paths. But the pull of this acquainted longing makes them share a smile. For how can you come in between two lovers that are made to one another, where even the stardust in their bones gravitate to one another.
A warm feeling comes over them, and simultaneously they think "finally".
This constant game of finding one another in every possible lifetime for one to perish is a price no mortal should have to carry. The cycle continues; restarting for them again and again. But it doesn't matter, they'll find each other once again. Hearts drawn to one another, no mistake in how their hearts beat for each other. A song so delicate and intimate, it's known to only them.
A ballad, where they dance under the night sky as free as the air that runs through their hair and cover their skin in goosebumps. Feeling the rapid thrum of their hearts against their ribcages as their warm lips find each other in the cold night for the first time. Creating memories filled with laughter and awkward tender moments. Their hearts will always recognize each other.
None being the wiser that this is the start of their demise.
She is cursed to always take his life.
He is cursed to always be the one have to leave her. A man considered a walking weapon, indestructible until he meets her. He recognizes it from the start, but will always welcome it.
To die by her hand and side is a heavenly way to part from this world. With the hope that the next life treats them better.
How many more lifetimes must they endure this?