Last Kiss

The moment was particularly poignant for them due to it likely being the last time they might know each other as each other in the persona they had come to love in such depths. They were together and that was all that mattered to either of them. 'Devil may care but I dont' Death thought to himself as the prospect of soon being alone tried to interrupt his will to fully take in the moment they had both anticipated for so long. Shutting out the visions of future agony he took her hands in his and looked long into her eyes, losing himself in her depths before he spoke finally.

"There is more to our love than that we like, trust, and want to
be with each other always. We are joined on a level others cant
even conceive of. Most people wed and it is a destination, their
journey hasn't begun it has ended. They go on in misery
together, for the rest of their lives, waiting, wanting some
win-fall to change their lives again, but that doesn't happen often.

Mostly they deny their hearts the freedom to live with joy,
all in some mistaken image of care for the other person when
the truth is that they never had care or love to begin with because
it was not ever showed to them the difference between love and care, and
what love and care are not.

You and I are different, we know, we have known the real love and
care together, with each other, and in this we have exceeded all
expectations that average normal people aspire to. We have found
the heights and depths and there is still much for us to explore
together. Even the wise and learned are in awe of what we have
discovered, they can barely understand what it is we share."

Death became consciously aware that he was stroking and fondling Mysterri's fingers with his. He was immediately distracted from what he was trying to say, being physically close to her had that affect on him. No matter how important something was, or how bitterly they may have disagreed previously in the course of a day's events, one smile, one touch from her and he was captivated all over again. Every negative feeling melted away instantly, unless she was actually teaching him a lesson in acceptable behaviour, then like any good husband he suffered to show how much he cared, and she would forgive him into loving arms. Always the price of pain was worth her love and care in his mind. He accepted her fully and completely, ignoring and dealing with idiosyncracy in their times and turns, and he knew from experience that there was no other he could do this for. He actually loved her and her only, this was the truth in his heart, protected and surrounded by the cruel vileness that came with his position of power. The two always at odd, his position and his love for her, each forbidden and final.

Mysterri disengaged Death's hands, which gave him a moment of
anxiety, a moment that gave way to bliss when she threw her arms
up around his neck, jumped and wrapped her legs around him,
clinging to him tightly. She buried her face into the nook of his
neck and shoulder. He could tell that she too was holding back many emotions.
They enjoyed the warmth and pleasure of embrace for a long moment.

Then, with a slightly emotion crackled voice she said, "No matter
how far apart we are we will always be together forever, not even
dying can separate our hearts, we are joined as one person, one
being, this cannot be changed even by gods".

"Yes, I am you, and you are me, when you die I will die also, all
that I do is for you, there is no me, only you, where you are
I am, when you feel I feel you because your feelings are mine, as
mine are yours, we walk this cosmos together for all existence and
through all creations."

Mysterri pulled back and rested her forehead against his, noses
touching, and with lowered eyelids they gazed with the soft gaze
that lovers do when so intimately close.

Their breathing became synchronized, one breathing in while the
other breathed out. Their inner essences began to mingle and
coalesce. As this happened each felt the peace and security many
look for from a god, their's was a much more real and tangible
experience.

The exchange taking place between them raised in intensity.
Finally, as if on cue, their lips moved to find each other's,
locking together in passion.
So they remained, trapped forever in one long kiss without break or breath.

And they celebrated each other's breath, each other's life, each other's passion, hopes, dreams, and joy.. until that moment when lack of oxygen deprives one of bodily consciousness...

Looking down on their crumpled bodies, acutely aware of each other's ethereal presence, they flew off to explore reality knowing they were ok no matter what happened to their bodies, as long as they were together, that was all that was really real to each of them..and besides it was decreed that Death and Mysterri could not ever perish truly, nor be separated alone as one without the other.