Wayfarer - Poem [Lalli & Reynir]

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Title: Wayfarer - Poem
Characters/Pairing: Lalli & Reynir
Rating: E for Everyone
Length: 60 lines poetry
Summary: Reynir visits Lalli in the dreamworld again. This time, he has a suggestion. Lalli has mixed feelings about it.
Other: Written for Feartheviolas for the SSSSforum Secret Santa. Have a great Christmas, Vi!
This is the second version of Wayfarer; the first version is the prose version, Wayfarer - Prose.



Wayfarer

Running through this too-open space
step in your footsteps,
try to keep up
with your too-long strides
in this expanse between dreams.
You said you could take me
asked me to follow
said it wasn't far, would be quick
and I don't know why I said yes.
It's dangerous out here
and I've had enough of you
enough to last a week
last a month
last a whole year.

But you stepped in carefully
entered my mind properly
deferring to me, asking first
didn't want to make me mad
said I look like someone
who knows what he's doing.
And I have to admit
I'm curious and wondering
what your safe place looks like,
what your mind looks like
have wondered since I saw you
in the mist on the water in the dream.

You're too soft, too sheltered
I didn't ask, but I could see
the fear in your eyes
when you first looked out
and took in this world,
this crumbling city
and I knew you'd never seen
the likes of it in your life.
You'd better understand,
take it in, consider it
that I can't teach you anything
and I work on my own
and I don't even know
if they have proper magic
where you're from, over there
on that far-away island.

You don't know what's out there
don't have a clue at all
and you're the last person
I would think of
to strike hand in hand
and sing spells with me
out here in this dark world.
But maybe we will find
we can put good things together,
weave something from this mess.
Maybe I'll see for myself
that there's something more to you
as you grab me and
with a smile and a word
pull me into your dream.