2005 September:

Title: Vigil
Characters: Lucius, Draco
Rating: PG
Format: Poetry
Author's Notes: Just flexing the muscles that wax lyrical. (http://www.livejournal.com/users/dimedici/74193.ht...)

Stilled is the breath that hangs suspended
When the capillaries expand, the lids taking on a waxen sheen.
This wilted horror is perfectly natural
Where it lies,
As long as it lies
And feels not the cool breath and dry kisses of those
Who pay tribute.

Thirteen threads bind the lips together
With such fine flaxen twine that the young man forgets his place,
His demeanour cracked as
He leans
Closer.

And closer still.

Hot breath refracts on cool flesh –
A shivering vigil as the words return to him,
Cooling quicker than hearts that flutter their last agonized triumph,

“Father.”