Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Death After Death

Camelot was no more.

Godwulf the hermit, struck down.

Gaheris and Lynet also.

We kept a running total

Over the last two books, 

And it eventually ran to a full page.

Beloved characters

(And a few stinkers).


I can see now, with a day of distance behind me,

How much of my sorrow comes,

Not only from loss of characters,

But from the loss of the experience,

The end. 

I want those precious hours of counting down pages,

Of unexpectedly beautiful moments that made me gasp

And get prickly behind the ears

To keep going forever.

And I confess to feeling 

More than a little devastated that

Camelot was no more.


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