Long Time Passing

[preserved_ginger]

Title: Long Time Passing
Rating: PG-13
Setting: post-Voyage of the Damned
Character(s): Ten. Rose (off-camera).
Pairing(s): Ten/Rose
A/N: Inspired by, but no spoilers for, 4X01 (Partners in Crime). Title from the song Where Have All The Flowers Gone? by Pete Seeger.
Summary: And yet, I think, those lies I still prefer

It's been so long, and yet the pain's still fresh
As if I only lost you yesterday;
And yet, despite the depth of my distress,
I cannot help but think it's best this way.
It's best that we now spend our lives apart,
Where I can't see how you both age and die –
Or that is what I tell my grieving hearts,
Although I know it's naught but desperate lies.
And yet, I think, those lies I still prefer;
As gloss to make the truth less hard to bear.
And my despairing mind, on that, concurs.
Oh, how I almost wish I didn't care …
It's not the same. How could it be the same?
I've nothing left of you, besides your name.

Comments

[requialexa.livejournal.com]

Oh. Swoon! This is wonderful! Esp the line, "As gloss to make the truth less hard to bear./ And my despairing mind, on that, concurs./ Oh, how I almost wish I didn't care…"

Poor, dear man. You nailed 'im there.

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

Oh. Swoon! This is wonderful! Esp the line, "As gloss to make the truth less hard to bear./ And my despairing mind, on that, concurs./ Oh, how I almost wish I didn't care…"

Hee!

Poor, dear man. You nailed 'im there.

And it’s vague enough that it would work as a post-JE sonnet too, don’t you think?

[the-lucky-stars.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was so completely lovely. Beautiful.

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was so completely lovely. Beautiful.

Thank you!

[rosetylerrox3.livejournal.com]

Wow...that was beautifully eloquent and so PERFECTLY the Doctor! I may have to mem this...

It was fantastic, well done!

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

Wow...that was beautifully eloquent and so PERFECTLY the Doctor!

That’s what I was working for. Glad to see it’s worked :D

[helygen.livejournal.com]

This is absolutely exquisite :)

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

This is absolutely exquisite :)

Thank you!

[jai-23.livejournal.com]

Yay for sonnets! ♥

This most definitely packs a punch, you've conveyed his loneliness perfectly.

I've nothing left of you, besides your name.
Definitely my favourite line, it's just so powerful and melancholy.

I adore this! Thank you for the lovely read and for directing me towards it! :)

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

I adore this! Thank you for the lovely read and for directing me towards it! :)

You're welcome. I remember you like sonnets, like I do, which is why I sent you the link :)

I am pleased you like this (I like it, too; particularly the note of melancholy that goes right through it.)

[acciochocolate.livejournal.com]

Beautiful and brillant; sad and sorrowful.

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

Beautiful and brillant; sad and sorrowful.

Thank you, I am glad you like it.

[fireflyfiasco.livejournal.com]

Wonderful.

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

Wonderful.

Thank you!