Ophelia - Becca Stevens

Ophelia

Wandered out into the belly of the woods

To bleed out in the arms of love that once bidden her heart

That beat for him

The sleeping man

In the silence of the absence of her self-fulfilling dreams

Ophelia found a place to rest where the river finds the sea

Of all the beauty that she had ever seen

Ophelia felt it all at once

At one with everything

And so with him

The sleeping man

Her restless heart had done it again

A fool for a hollow dream

Then lovesick and out of sorts

She’d fallen on the sleeper’s sword

So Ophelia wandered out into the belly of the sea

So she could finally see herself as she was meant to be

And cradled by the water, rocking her to sleep

Ophelia made a promise from thine own self be free

And fell into

The arms of the deep

In the night travelling home from war

His dreams as black as ink

Now upon the river’s edge

Death parted

To wash his grisled face

And drink

And as he cupped his empty hands to bring 'em to his lips

A vision of a woman nearly stopped his breath

He knew this woman, he’d seen her in his dreams

She’d haunted him on the battlefield and gave him cause to live

Of all the beauty that he had ever seen

Now he felt it all at once

Now he felt it all at once

Ophelia

His restless heart had done it again

A fool for a phantom queen

He dropped his armour and his sword

And all he had ever been

The knight looked in the water to find his river queen

And there he saw a man like him where she had always been

Of all the beauty that he had ever seen

Now he felt it all at once

At one with everything

And so with her

Ophelia