Star-Crossed Lovers.
There’s this constellation about two lovers: The Lyra — the lyre of Orpheus.
It tells the story of Orpheus and Eurydice.
When death stole his beloved wife, Orpheus descended into the depths of Hades to bring her back from the hands of death. And for a moment, he almost succeeded. But that’s where it ends — almost.
To immortalize their love, the gods placed his lyre among the stars as the constellation Lyra.
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But our love will not be like these, so ill fated that they could only be together in the afterlife, nor would ours be fantasized in the stars for men to behold what could have been.
Our love will not be something so frail that it “almost was.” It will not be so light that the winds of the universe will quench. Ours would not bow to the dictates of the norns, or the fates, or whatever name they have beared to wreak havoc.
You and I will not be bound to a single constellation. Ours will not need any form of mystification, for ours will be a reality that would resound all through the universe, it’ll be another big bang.
Where you and I meet there will be light. Chaos will be stilled, and Life will be born to bear witness to what we share.
We will not be starcrossed lovers.
We would be lovers —
whose love could not be stopped.
