Forever In A Moment
by @rocketgrrrl
Liner Notes
#dailywritingprompt ('What Forever Feels Like') #girlwithukulele #folk #filk #fuc
I've been listening to the Silmarillion lately, so when I saw this prompt, I thought of the elves and their lives that last for all time, from the beginning of the world to the end. Of the stories of those few who are cursed to love mortals with their fleeting lives.
And so fell back to the stories of my own fantasy kingdom, 'Shoth', and created a new character for the song - a woman who wields the magic of the stars to travel to other worlds. In those places, she can spend a lifetime, while only a moment passes back home in Shoth. Of all the star mages, she has chosen to live forever, by living life after life, in other worlds. Like the elves, I think hers would be a tragic tale.
Since I was inspired by the works of a linguist, the bridge uses the #conlang I created for Shoth - it was developed by the animals who live alongside the humans there, and is not well suited to human speech (but humans there make do). I speak the translation after the bridge.
So there you go. Forever, in a moment. And a #fantasy world of star #magic. Written in the #dorian mode, because it should be (with a change to the relative #major for the chorus).
Lyrics
Forever in a Moment
Jemma Kline
Starlight, drawn in every hue,
All the memories of people that I knew,
Burning, shining like the sun,
But I’ll still be here when all their lives are done.
Forever, in a moment.
What if dreams could never end?
Forever, in a moment.
When it’s over, start again?
Starlight, woven and entwined,
Threads to lead me through the labyrinth of time,
To lifetimes, living each one through,
And the last one took me all the way to you.
Forever, in a moment.
What if dreams could never end?
Forever, in a moment,
When it’s over, start again?
Hush huhfose huthuth,
Ach hofe othe sose suph,
Thath suhsoth foeshoal,
Faf yuthoph yose hall.
I call the stars
That illuminate my path,
Spending years in that place,
A lifetime spent there.
Forever, in a moment.
What if dreams could never end?
Forever, in a moment,
When it’s over, start again?