░░ originally written for Consistency 2021
░░ Prompt: Every single sentence that you write has to begin with the last letter of the previous line
░░ Word Count: 225 words
In every other universe, we broke each other’s hearts. Surely as the sun rose in every world, none of us were ever happy.
Yet, why is it, that a heart that has been broken over and over by the same soul, still long for the other so? One would think, that after enough lifetimes, the heart would grow tired. Defeated. Dead to life, to all, to hope. Every single time it would beat to life only to lose its will to live without reaching even a billion heartbeats.
So, why is it, that without fail, in every single lifetime, we would always find each other?
Rather than setting us free, the world would make us meet, over and over. Rather than let us be happy, the fates would always make one love ‘till they bleed while the other turns away.
You would always, in every universe I know, cast me away.
Yet now you claim to love me.
Eyes filled with tired desperation, of a dying light losing its last slivers of hope. Every other lifetime I could remember, these were the eyes I never thought would turn towards me, and yet—
The fates truly are cruel, playing with us like this.
Surely, now that we’ve landed on a snippet of eternity where our hearts finally beat for each other, we can finally be happy?
Noice