romance

Part XI: Here Comes the Boogeyman

Submitted by SpartanAltego on Wed, 10/03/2018 - 16:24

Let the Long Night End
Part XI
Here Comes the Boogeyman

Children, have you ever met the Boogeyman before?
No, of course you haven't, for you're much too good I'm sure
Don't you be afraid of him, if he should visit you
He's a great big coward, so I'll tell you what to do:
Hush-Hush-Hush
Here comes the Boogeyman!

"It was a strong effort of the spirit of good; but it was ineffectual. Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction." – Frankenstein

MILTON
1982, October 23rd

Part X: Hold Back the Night

Submitted by SpartanAltego on Mon, 08/27/2018 - 03:01

Let the Long Night End
Part X
Hold Back the Night

When you left
You took the sun right out of the sky
I'm wondering why you went away
Never told me, told me why
And then the sun goes down and the moon is clear
Scared to death 'cause your face appears

“Just a boy and a girl in a little canoe
And the moon shining all around
He paddled his paddle so
You couldn't even hear a sound
And they talked and they talked
Till the moon grew dim,
He said you better kiss me
Or get out and swim
So what you gonna do in a little canoe

Part IX: Misty

Submitted by SpartanAltego on Sun, 06/24/2018 - 05:44

Let the Long Night End
Part IX
Misty

Look at me
I'm as helpless as a kitten up a tree
And, I feel like I'm clinging to a cloud
I can't understand,
I get misty just holding your hand

“A baker lives here in the city,
He bakes cookies mostly all-day long.
He bakes big ones, he bakes small ones,
He bakes a few with sugar on top.

And in his window hangs Christmas tree decorations
And horses, pigs and gingerbread.
And if you're kind you can have some,
But if you're bad you must leave!” – Sockerbagaren: A Christmas Carol

LEVI
September 9th

Part VIII: Night and Day

Submitted by SpartanAltego on Tue, 06/12/2018 - 21:08

Let the Long Night End
Part VIII
Night and Day

Night and day, under the hide of me
There's an oh, such a hungry burning inside of me
And its torment won't be through
Till you let me spend life makin' love to you

“I won’t leave you, I won’t leave you
until you fall asleep and dream of the place
where nothing is red.
When is a monster not a monster?
Oh, when you love it.”

OSKAR
September 4th

Part VII: Time Has Told Me

Submitted by SpartanAltego on Tue, 05/22/2018 - 05:45

Let the Long Night End
Part VII
Time Has Told Me

Time has told me; You came with the dawn
A soul with no footprint; A rose with no thorn
Your tears they tell me, there’s really no way
Of ending your troubles
With things you can say

“But when he clearly recognized the pilot,
He cried: “Make haste, make haste to bow the knee!
Behold the Angel of God!” – The Divine Comedy, Purgatorio, Canto II

MILTON
September 3rd
Waynesboro, West Virginia

Part VI: After You've Gone

Submitted by SpartanAltego on Sat, 05/12/2018 - 02:13

Let the Long Night End
Part VI
After You’ve Gone

Oh, after the years, we've been together
The joy and tears and all kinds of weather
Someday, blue and downhearted
You'll long to be with me right back where you started
After I'm gone, after I'm gone away

“Hunting is a relic of the barbarous spirit that thirsted formerly for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.” ―Christian Nestell Bovee

LANGLEY
1982, August 12th
Near Charlottesville, West Virginia

Part V: It Had To Be You

Submitted by SpartanAltego on Thu, 04/05/2018 - 01:08

Let the Long Night End
Part V
It Had to Be You

It had to be you, it had to be you
I wandered around and finally found, that somebody who
Could make me be true
Could make me feel blue
And even be glad just to be sad, thinking of you.

“When he had made two snips, he saw the Little Red Riding Hood shining, and then he made two snips more, and the little girl sprang out, crying, ‘Ah, how frightened I have been. How dark it was inside the wolf.’” — Red Riding Hood.

OSKAR
1982, July 4th
Waynesboro, West Virginia

Part II: I've Got You Under My Skin

Submitted by SpartanAltego on Thu, 12/21/2017 - 02:29

Let the Long Night End
Part II
I’ve Got You Under My Skin

I’ve got you under my skin
I’ve got you deep in the heart of me
So deep in my heart
That you’re really a part of me
I’ve got you under my skin.

“In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.” – Revelation 9:6

LEVI
1982, June 6th (Nightfall)
Shenandoah Park, West Virginia

Part I: God Only Knows

Submitted by SpartanAltego on Thu, 12/07/2017 - 01:17

Let the Long Night End
Part I
God Only Knows

I may not always love you
But long as there are stars above you
You never need to doubt it
I’ll make you so sure about it
‘Cause God only knows what I’d be without you

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.” – Og Mandino

OSKAR
1982, June 25th (Evening)
Shenandoah Park, West Virginia