Subject: [OTL]: (Sandman) Promises and Wanderings 1/1
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 20:31:28 PDT
From: "Magik !" <magikfanfic@hotmail.com>

Disclaimer: Anything recognizable, like the pale man with the wild hair and
the bottled city, belong to Vertigo/DC comics and to Neil Gaiman. I do not
own this stuff. I am just using it for non-profit entertainment. The man,
woman and the poem belong to me.

Note: This hasn't been spell checked. The second part is meant to be like
that. I hope it doesn't confuse you too much.

Promises and Wanderings
by Magik

I waited for you
Somewhere past the edge of tomorrow.
I sat by the side
Of the neverending road, eyes open.
I was looking for you,
For some sign of you in the distance.
I listened for you
And the deep boom that is your voice.
But I never heard you,
No, I never saw any sign of you.

I gave up on you
And turned away from the cold path.
I had never expected
That you would come anyway.
I never let myself
Be carried away into that delusion.
For I am strong,
Stronger than you gave me credit for.
I am even stronger
Than I gave myself credit for.

So I packed my bags,
Threw them over my shoulder and walked.
I was sure that
Nothing would stop me on this road.
The wind blew my hair
Around my face, into my eyes.
It didn't really
Bother me all that much.
But I knew that
It would have greatly bothered you.

We parted company
Ten years ago on a summer night.
I kissed your eyes
While you slept and whispered to you.
I told you dreams
Of castles in bottles and gods.
I promised to wait
For you at the end of the highway.
When I left I thought
That you understood our agreement.

Now I walk alone
Down the road that leads everywhere.
I am still chasing
Those long ago dreams that haunt me.
I won't give them up,
My wonderful fever dreams and visions.
Not for you, dear,
And not for the whole wide world.
But I did wish
To see you for it has been too long.

***

I arrived at the station
Breathless and panting
I looked around to try and find you
But you weren't there
There was just a note
Written on plain white paper
About how you wished it was better
And how I should see through your eyes
But the neverending road was empty
And the sun had swallowed your tracks

I sat down on the bench to cry
For I had lost you once again
When a man, pale as moonlight
With hair as wild as a baby bird's feathers
Told me to just pack my bags and walk
Everything on the path runs together
And I would find you in no time
Well I wanted to thank him
But he had already disappeared
As fast as he had come

I shrugged my shoulders
Then I picked up my bags
And started walking down the road
I began to think of your whispers
Of all the things you told me about
While I was sound asleep and you were real
I thought about the bottled city
And the shards of green glass in the sand
I dreamed that I saw you in the sun
Your warm smile shinning down on me forever

You have probably given up on me
And decided that I'm best left alone
To be willed away by the tickings of society
And the harsh hand of capitalism
I swear to you that I have not died
My heart is in my chest my soul with you
Just like it was ten years ago
When we kissed under the summer sky
Back when my dreams where my own
And you stayed up all night talking to yours

I have come for you darling
Walking the road whose name you left me with
Feeling the pull of your soul on my eyelids
And the whisper of your voice in my ear
It has been ten years yet nothing has changed
If I squint into the distance and the sun
Then I see your outline wavering and lost
So far ahead of me but still so close
I won't run though I won't quicken my pace
Because we'll be together eventually and I can wait