GUARDIAN

In her moment of lost sublime
tears staining her white satin dress,
love's vows shattered by his betrayal,
shadows groping at her soul,
sorrow's storm coming again
as so often during her wounded past.

Waiting for night's ethereal wind to bring her rescue,
feeling the darkness impaling her spirit in anticipation,
breathing it in deep and exhaling her grief,
room filling with ominous presence of her lifelong watcher,
soon he'll venture forth in creeping wrath
weaving his power over lives, to add agonizing layer of misery
upon those who wound his heavenly charge,
for at times guardian's of light don their black veils of vengeance
taking the terrifying form of a reaper.