Two years today ("There be dragons here . . . ")

 There be dragons here

"There be dragons here" 

some warned - to keep me safe

from The Darkness . . . 

"But this much light and love,"

I said,

"will surely conquer that Darkness -

   That Dragon." 

And so the innocent, the trusting,

the believers,

are often lured into 

The Darkness -

because it was beautiful, just like you were, 

in the beginning.

But there was not enough love, or longing, or hoping, or praying -

that could rescue you from The Darkness.

But we tried . . . and failed . . .

while you slowly slipped away from us,

until the day

The Darkness

finally

took you 

Two years . .. . and yet we grieve. 

I love you.  

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"Some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say, "There be dragons here." And now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there."