Alexander enters Eternity

[hiphys]

Nights
between sleep and death,
closed eyes seeing the past:

lands of warriors, seas
of ships, and you
keeping silence over the earth
in amazement, 'Who - it asked -
who this guy is - man, god?
But no one answered, your eyes
looked far away, new lands,
new peoples, forward, forward!

You searched in the past
a forgotten city, your
childhood friends, a puppy,
the wreath from a banquet,
your first true sword,
a word
a lost smile...
Something was missing, someone,
someone you missed so much,
who, like a dream, now,
had no face, no voice, do you
lose even his memory? No, "Never -
Achilles said - I'll forget my companion, as long
as I walk among the living - And though
in the house of Hades man may
forget their dead, even there,
I shall remember him..."

and you remembered
the pain, the tears, that day
you lost him forever, and the hole
in your heart,
but not him,
no, he was a thought,
a shade of light, the sound
of happiness in a time
full of life
he was a thing
called love...and you knew
he was so near now that
if only you
could tell his name he would
be with you again,
the name
his name

HEPHAISTION
and
you felt his warmth
shining with love, the dark
wall around you collapsed...

together
they will be One
forever