Fic: And In Possession So (Swordspoint, Alec/Richard, PG-13)

Title: And In Possession So
Author: Brigdh
Rating/ Warnings: R. Bloodplay; activities engaged in by fictional characters with tenuous holds on both sanity and morality should not be re-enacted by real people, or at least not without safety precautions not featured here.
Word count: 500 exactly.
Summary: Written for springkink. The prompt was, "Alec/Richard, bloodplay, masochistic".

( And In Possession So )

National Poetry Month

Sonnet 129 William Shakespeare

The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and till action, lust
Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,
Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight,
Past reason hunted, and no sooner had
Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait
On purpose laid to make the taker mad;
Mad in pursuit and in possession so;
Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;
A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe;
Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream.
All this the world well knows; yet none knows well
To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.

Music

Most of you probably already have Hinach Yafa by the Idan Raichel Project, because I've uploaded it multiple times in the years since I first found the song, which I've never grown tired of. It's a Hebrew and Aramaic modern version of the Song of Songs, and is one of the gorgeous pieces of music I know.

Given that I love this one song so much, I've always wanted to hear other songs by the group, but could never find any; their one CD for sale on Amazon lingered as 'unavailable' for years, I could never find a single additional song to download in all the internet, ebay never produced a CD for sale, etc. I gave up making an particular effort to search it out.

Today I was in a Barnes & Noble, trolling their poetry books for things to post later this month, when Hinach Yafa came on as the background. I hummed along for a few bars, thinking Oh, yes, I love this song, and then suddenly realized ...what the hell? I have never heard this song played in public! I have never seen any reference to this group from someone who didn't get it from me!

I fluttered over to the information desk and asked, "What CD are you playing! Is this for sale!" The guy called someone, asked, and informed me that it was a personal mix made by the music manager, who was not currently in the store, and so no one knew.

Disappointed, I decided to go poke around their CD section anyway, since I don't know any music managers of a Barnes & Noble, in the hope that she might have gotten it from a CD in the store. And! People, I bring you grand news: an Idan Raichel Project CD has indeed finally been released in the United States, and I now own a copy. Awesome.