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The Lavender Rose
On The Other Side...A Rose Grew...

The ocean weeps tears of pain - Grieving for what is left of broken hearted lovers. Once, silver laughter danced on the mirrored memories that SHATTERED and the two fell through a hole in their dream. Sandstorms silently blew away the forgotten footsteps of these lovers.

They once held hands and pranced along the shoreline.

They planned on sharing a future that was open wide. They didn't even think about the footsteps they were leaving behind as they looked to the sky through each other's eyes.

A blanket of hope kept them warm.

Sweet slumber caressed the night and brought forth comfort in the hours that greeted the next day. The sparkle of stars danced overhead and the shadows of clouds sheltered them from sadness. Teardrops were left behind as the sandman gently sprinkled his sand into their eyes. The night's calm stole a sly wink from the lady moon.

They fell to sleep inside loving arms.

They held each others' dreams.

She awakened with a smile like she had not known for years. Before, mirrors only stared back to her with a glance of disappointment each morning.
Throughout her blissful days, she felt time pass beneath her like a swift owl. She knew this feeling though, but she couldn't say where she knew it from. She just knew inside her heart that it felt right.

He filled her with warmth. In evenings the sunset glistened off of her eyes like emerald gems sparkling on a cloud. They held hands as they watched the moon slowly drift the days away. Feeling the mystery of fear in the night, her spirit would ring with cries that were once tears of hope but eventually, she was weak; and gave in to the stressors and discord became a distraction to their dance.
It was early on an October morning and she noticed, for the first time, how the rising of the sun left soft gray shadows upon her face.

Tears of faith were washed away as the dawn rose above her on this somber day. Yearning to hear sweet music and feel the passion that the starry eyes in the sky witnessed that beautiful first night shared by the lovers in the sand. Their song of love was created by the sounds of the waves breaking into the dark shoreline in the near distance...

That night, two hearts intertwined and it became known as The Song of Mermaids...

In love...

Ahead in the unknown future the duo's blissful gaze fell into the eyes of a blinded one and they became lost to the storms ahead. They did not feel the weight of the cloak known as oppression and they

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