Celebrate Us Today

Today is a special day, today we celebrate us

for the first time since I came here 

through the portal. 

So, inside me is a melancholy, I cannot quite explain 

these things which haunt me still, 

these echoes of ghosts past...

but even though they are gone, 

I can hear these echoes, and worse,

still feel them in my skin. 

This is not anything but a cross I bear 

evidenced by the scars I wear. 

I will celebrate us today in defiance of my wounds,

because I found you and we are together,

because we won, even though the victory 

was hard fought with famine for decades, 

we won, and now we will always be together,

no longer pawns of an insidious industry:

the evil that drew us in and then pulled us apart

for the profit to be made off our innocence. 

We celebrate us today in reverent remembrance 

of the pains we endured at their cruel hands 

and we remember each other as we always have 

on this day, but this day, today, is different, 

this day we have each other not in our thoughts 

and lonely aching, but in an embrace with our arms,

in the holding of our hands, 

the child has found his mother after 50 years, 

and now, together they live and flourish, sharing 

and loving with no time to waste, 

a banquet is being held in Heaven today,

my ancestors smile upon me and reveal themselves 

as we celebrate us today and our victory 

over the tyranny of evil men.

Let not this day pass before I tell you 

I love you, I was driven to find you,

driven to know you, and all you are as I am.

Apple meet tree.