Enchanted

She waits for love that is worth her tears.

And the gift was love.

Your smile ravishes my soul.

“Your eyes are magnificent. ’Tis a miracle the fairies haven’t stolen you away out of jealousy.”

she is beautiful beyond any man’s dreams.

“But he didn’t die. Love was stronger.”

“For you, I have all the time in the world.”

without hope there are no dreams.”

The sacred rowan is a woman born long, long ago, a woman whose refusal to see love cost first her lover’s life, then the lives of her family, her clan, her people.