Xanthe's Poem

May my skin blister, may my eyes burn

May I be ravaged by the sun's light stern

There's but one pain, one thing I fear

Your silence, darling, your absence, dear

Say, say you hate me

So long as you speak

Run, run from me

So long as you breathe

My memories are fleeing to become naught but grains of sand

They are taking you with them - such is this hell's demand

Shards of you scatter, unmade, destroyed

All becomes dust, in Anachora's void

Say, say you hate me

So long as you speak

Run, run away from me

So long as you breathe

I'm fading, I'll be gone, my dear

But whilst my song lasts, I'm here

The quest it belongs to