TRIGGER WARNING: DEATH<\/p>\n
SPOILER WARNING: LORD OF SHADOWS- CASSANDRA CLARE<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
High above the Council Hall,<\/p>\n
The golden clock began to chime the hour.<\/p>\n
As if the world didn’t care for her,<\/p>\n
As if the world didn’t ache for her loss.<\/p>\n
My eyes brimming with tears,<\/p>\n
As my heart tries to cope with what I’d seen,<\/p>\n
A small whimper as my hand reaches my face,<\/p>\n
Trying to push the sobs inside me.<\/p>\n
I hold her in my arms,<\/p>\n
Her head heavy in my lap,<\/p>\n
Heavier than she’d been,<\/p>\n
Like the soul leaving her had burdened her.<\/p>\n
I brush her hair away from her face,<\/p>\n
Willing her to come back to me,<\/p>\n
Can’t imagine a life without her,<\/p>\n
A life without my dear little sister.<\/p>\n
The anger bubbling inside me,<\/p>\n
Shaking my ever steady hand,<\/p>\n
I pray and I pray and I pray,<\/p>\n
But I feel my prayers going up in smoke.<\/p>\n
I plead her to open her eyes again,<\/p>\n
I beg her to stay by my side,<\/p>\n
I feel the light go out of me,<\/p>\n
I’m alive but I’m dead inside…<\/p>\n
~thryaksha<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
FIRST LINE TAKEN FROM THE LAST LINE OF “Lord of Shadows” by “Cassandra Clare”.<\/p>\n
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