Please Come Back To Me
by Donna L Martin
They warned her about returning but she wouldn't listen. She couldn't. Her mind knew the waiting had been too long. They said he was probably lost with his ship and yet her heart refused to give up. For days she had waited, there by the shore, searching the horizon for some speck of hope to float across the waves and return her love to her. But as weeks turned into months the silence began to engulf her.
That's when the dreams began. At first just mist and moonlight and the hint of a whispered voice calling out for her to come to him. A voice so soft and velvety as it touched her, teasing her with a hunger to hold onto his arms once more until she thought she would go mad with the longing. She could tell no one about those dreams. They already thought her mad. But she knew he was waiting there for her and so she found her way back to the lighthouse. Back to the place where all their dreams began and ended. Back to the place where in her dreams he told her to meet him.
As she made her way up the long winding stairs in the moonlight she could make out a shadow, there is the doorway and she knew he had finally come back for her. They had told her to abandon all hope but her heart simply couldn't let go. She had long since given up knowing what was real and what was fantasy. All she could think of after all these years was that her love had returned...
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And there he was, in the moonlight. A shadow? A ghost? A living, breathing person? She didn't know and she didn't care. All she knew was she needed to be with him, now and forever.
ReplyDeleteHe beckoned to her. "Come to me," he said, although not a sound came from his lips.
"I'm here, I'm yours. We're together now," she said. "Take my hand."
She reached out to him and felt his hand in hers. Together, they faded away into the moonlight. Together, forever.
Hi Christine! I like your ending. When I was a teenager I read a book called Possession. I don't remember the author's name, but it was the most mesmerizing story I had ever read and I still remember the ending to this day. This story kinda followed the same story line and it was interesting that YOU followed pretty much the same story...;~)
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I like Ms. M's ending. My addition would be:
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Maybe they become constellations?
Hi Erik! I like your addition and what a great visual...
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As she moved closer to him she could still make out those familiar lines in his face, older, rugged, yet still the same. His dark eyes, warming her trembling heart. As they reached each other he took her silently in his strong arms, her eyes glistened in the moonlight as tears of overwhelming longing ran down her cheek, as their lips met in a passionate embrace. The smell and taste of him warmed her in the chill of the darkened night, and as her arms moved around his neck he bent and gathered her up in his arms. She closed her eyes, resting her head against his chest, and felt herself being carried by her lover. She didn't care where, she was with him, that was all that mattered.
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Hi Diane! I also liked YOUR addition! So many lovely options to choose from...;~)
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