Love's Lament

Fie that I ever discovered what it is to love! My dearest Katalina and I were meant for one another. Even in this place of horror and unnatural foes, we everything we needed to weather an eternity of struggles: love. Love everlasting. Love without end. But now she is gone, and I am alone. Woe that such a dark fate should befall me. For over 100 years had we roamed this land together. A stranger could be forgiven to think me fortunate. Do not think it so, for now, every blade of grass, every rock and tree, every cloud in the night sky, reminds me of her dark eyes and shining smile. It is all a memory! Were I not immortal, I would incontinently drown myself. And now, here I am, without even the silence of death to comfort me. I pray now only that whatever dark forces besiege this place should triumph, and do so quickly. Perhaps, when it is over, the endless torment of this bleak existence will finally cease and trouble me no longer. -Babak Rahbar