Awakenings
He stirred slowly in the blue light. Where was this? Not the Temple of
Time, any more...
A voice, sharp and familiar, broke through his amazement - only to add to
it.
"Link... look at yourself! You're an adult!"
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Some people say 'time flies'.
They know nothing.
We fly through time.
Yesterday - I was a child.
Innocent, unknowing.
Yet -
what am I now?
Seven years
Could be just one day.
Time, shadow-echoes,
Held me no longer.
When I was thrown out of its current,
From past,
Into present...
Into future?
What does it mean, now?
They call me an 'adult' just for those extra years -
Ones I may never know.
Yet I feel no different.
This 'adulthood' must be a joke.
But I look at myself
And think
No. It's not.
The stranger, the sage, speaks.
To be a hero? Fate? Destiny?
Why I have been thrown from what I knew?
Why have the unknown years changed me so?
How does exile from the forest
Leave this mark of forever?
I cannot listen.
Cannot understand.
Why am I the one?
Trapped out of time
I can only watch.
Its hero, they say?
Yet it means nothing.
Why could yesterday
Not last forever?
When I thought I knew the truth?
Yet...
I didn't...
Memory, illusion,
I will hold you forever.
All I have lost
Will find a place in my mind,
And seek for the knowledge
Of what I have become.