Lyrical Thursday

[tigriswolf]

Guess what, y'all? I'm still tigriswolf and today’s Thursday! Now’s the day for poetry or lyrics or simply a song title. Just a few simple rules:

No more than three prompts to a single fandom
No more than five prompts at a time
Use the following format:

Supernatural, author's choice, Night of the Hunter

Highlander, Methos,
I have known them all already, known them all –
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room. (TS Eliot)


Now, if nothing new appeals, don't forget the lonely prompts.

tag = songs titles/lyrics/poems

Comments

[xenoamorist.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, Dean/Castiel,

You know the way Jesus

rips open his shirt
to show us his heart, all flaming and thorny,
the way he points to it.
He wants to save me
but we disagree from what.

My version of hell
is someone ripping open his shirt
and saying, Look what I did for you.

(Nick Flynn, “Emptying Town”)

rend me and redeem - AU, PG, character death

[tigriswolf]

When Castiel falls, it is an eternity before he hits the ground. His wings are tattered and frayed, his grace torn from his body, and he cannot move. He cannot hear his brothers or sisters, cannot feel Father, cannot see or think or protect himself.

The scavengers come. He has not the strength to even cry.



Gabriel finds him. He says it's an ex-angel thing, and he puts a gentle hand on Castiel's skull.

Dean hits his knees, gun slipping out of his grip. The cannon-fodder demons scatter, sticking to the receding shadows, and Sam sketches a protection sigil onto the air.

Too late, Dean thinks, and he wants to believe it's not his fault. But he knows it is. He looks up, meets Gabriel’s eyes.

Gabriel fell, too, and he survived. But Gabriel is a trickster, and Castiel was so good. Was.

“He did it for you,” Gabriel whispers, and the roaring wind steals the words, as Gabriel’s presence whirls around them.

He did it for you. Dean closes his eyes as Gabriel throws back his head and screams.



Choose, the great voice thunders, filling Castiel until there is room for nothing else. Your life or his.

Give to him all of me, Castiel gasps.

And he screams, and he falls, and he lets go.

Re: rend me and redeem - AU, PG, character death

[xenoamorist.livejournal.com]

AHHHHHHHHHHH

♥♥♥ Thank you for the gorgeous fill. I love the sparseness of it; you've captured in so few words a vastness of emotion, and the ending is wonderful and perfect. :DDD Thanks again~

Re: rend me and redeem - AU, PG, character death

[tigriswolf]

I'm so very glad you like it!