Seven Years
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By: Lydia, 1999
Point of View: Mulder, post 6th season


Even now, in darkness unwelcoming
	I feel your warmth, and the knowledge that
Truth holds no place for lovers or friends.
	To find our way now, is to know the way home
	
I need what you bring to this unusual coupling
	The skeptic in you keeps my belief aware.
The end of a quest is illusion, foreboding
And the missions end has become a goal less desired

...leading to a goodbye I never could bear.

Reaching the end, as light of day stretches
	Seven years culmination and I fear the result
Denial takes root, as we each search our hearts
	Knowing the untimeliness of an acknowledgment now

Even now, in darkness undending
	I long to feel your warmth, and the knowledge that
Truth might have a place for friends as lovers
	Belief in the end, that it might justify waiting

...leading to a farewell that we might have to bear