Dyad Poem by Gabrielle Ciarann Roniyah Baer

Voice 1

It was wonderful, it was fantastic,
it was ecstatic,
being in her arms again,
It was all wrong.
I should have known.

I gloried in her gaze,
I drank her scent,
I reveled in her fire,
I should never have come here,
I can’t again.

Her eyes shone with tears,
her lips trembled so,
Her touch swept my mind away.
I said not a word to her,
and that was unfair.

What we lost is lost,
Who we were and who we loved,
Both are changed for good
What we knew, is gone,
all we have is here and now,
What will be, cannot be known,
Whether right or wrong.
But I know.

I can’t stay here,
my place is leagues away,
My punishment’s my joy,
and yet my charge as well.
I can’t take her,
She’s made her homeland free again
We both have tasks to do.
But how do I tell her?
Gods! How do I tell Nebula?

Voice 2
It was incredible, it was so wonderful,
it was magickal,
Being in his arms again.
But I knew all the while we loved,
It was all wrong,

I flew to his touch,
I shone in his gaze,
I leapt to his music again,
I cried out my joy,
I let go my doubts and pain
The wanting was enough.
But not now.

He is still beautiful,
He is still rare as silk,
He is still gold to my bronze,
And morning to my dusk
And he still wants me.
I cannot doubt that now.
It’s so unfair.

We are so much alike,
maybe too much akin
I know the man who sleeps here beside me,
No, I knew the man who sleeps here beside me.
But then I saw him die,
And now he lives.

He gave his life for mine,
he’d give his life again,
He does what’s right for him,
That’s no surprise, So do I
When I can, when I say,
when I take off my crown?
No, I can’t,
and he knows it.

I cannot go with him
Now as then I’m bound to stay
We had so little.
And so much together.
We understand so much without a word
Yet, how do I tell him?
Oh great Goddess!
How do I tell Iolaus?

(written in 2000)