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Your Eyes Were Green With Me by Xiran

Winner for July 2023

Your Eyes Were Green With Me
-25th of Urlachmar, 655 CE-

Did I lose you to the sea,
Or were you the one to leave?
I remember when your eyes were green.

Traces like footsteps in the sand,
Washed away from Verdant Land.
Did I lose you to the sea,
Sailing to shores beyond me?

Cruel as kelpies 'neath the waves,
Would you send me to my grave?
I remember when you danced with me.

Hands I held in joy and grief and wrath,
Would you now deny my path?
Did I lose to vision thin,
Deceiving you and my kin?

Did I lose you to the sea,
Or were you the one to leave?
I remember when your eyes were green.

Mortal choice made this circumstance;
Must we mark this our last dance?
How'd I lose you to the sea,
Sister once in fae fealty?

Did I lose to vision thin
On a distant horizon?
I remember when you danced with me.

Choices that we cannot reweave,
It serves none for us to grieve.
Did I lose to vision thin,
That we could not be wherein?

Did I lose to what could be / vision thin,
On a distant horizon?
I remember / I remember / I remember
When your eyes were green / with me.