In silent thought I sat
the hot wind blowing against my face
and the beast I had tamed
lying at my feet

I looked out at the waters
spread before me
to the mountains far beyond

As the dry wind shifted
it howled into my ears
a song from long before this life,
It blew my long dark locks in front of my eyes
and re-awakened me
to a vision of another place in time

I wondered then how it had ended,
my final demise in that chapter
written so very long ago

I thought of him
who died just two days before
A victim of his own undoing
If there was a heaven or a hell
If this was heaven and he was in hell
and what power one could have from such a place

The beast looked up at me with golden eyes
that reassured me
that in time such places could exist
but for now our lives are all that matter