Written: 9 April 2009
Published: 24 June 2009
Last edited: 10 Sept 2010 for formatting
Summary: Theirs is a love unbounded by time, by space, by the fleeting connections to other human hearts.

A/N: This just. . .came out. Hope you all enjoy. C:

Theirs is a love unbounded by time, by space, by the fleeting connections to other human hearts. There is only each other; it is how they see the world: through their love. It blinds them, it illuminates the world; they do not mind.

They are not envious of other couples that hold hands and spend a nickel to win a panda bear at the fair. Those are things they gave up long ago in a war no one remembers, that no one cares about. The only time they regret those things is when she tastes marzipan on the sides of her tongue and he sees them in the store-shop windows.

They are both found strange by their peers; they never entangle themselves in other human beings, only their strange shadows of animals. People look at him askew for letting his cat follow him everywhere but the hospital, and for her, she lets the ermine wander far and wide and people wonder if she has a soul at all.

They speak to one another, even when they are not together in a garden and it is not midsummer. But when the sun runs high and grass sweeps up the legs of the bench, they return there and imagine the warmth of the other's hand and whisper to one another,

"I am here, it is here. The Republic of Heaven is built and I love you."