Sarziah's Revelation (Sequel to "Sarziah and the Dragon")

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This is the sequel to another story poem called 'Sarziah and the Dragon.' If you haven't read my other poem, I recommend that you do that FIRST by going here: https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/160230-sarziah-and-the-dragon/  ....the following poem will make a lot more sense if you do. A warning, though: 'Sarziah and the Dragon' is erotica, so if you can't read it, the sequel poem below still stands on its own.      
     
I hope you enjoy! (Feedback encouraged!)      
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As his body, claimed by the sea      
Began to fade and sink      
Brightness      
Light, such excrutiating pain,      
I could hardly think.      
     
The water threatened to pull me under too      
But instinct reigned,      
my words sprung forth and made the water move      
A tidal wave carried me back toward shore      
I screamed for the pain that sluiced through my veins      
...and I keened for the dragon who was no more      
     
As the wave gently finished my bidding      
Rested me at last on the golden, sun-warmed sand      
My head still felt like it was splitting      
Breaking my skull in two between my hands.      
     
Another searing pain pushed through,      
Like I'd been stabbed from behind      
My back throbbed and ached fiercely      
Red rivulets of blood ran down my back and thighs      
as I reached around to see what pierced me.      
     
Perhaps I'd been clawed unwittingly      
in our feverish escapades      
Now that all-consuming pleasure had since passed...      
No pleasure left to dull the pain      
My hand followed the ache      
To the pain by my shoulder blades      
     
A large, smooth, thing had impaled me      
Blood flowed freely from the wound      
And one pervasive thought came through my mind:      
Death would follow soon.      
And what would it matter at this point?      
Perhaps I could help it along      
I yanked violently, my grip still strong,      
and there was tearing at my joints.      
What weapon was this...      
In anger I flailed, grasping, groping for the handle of      
the cursed, wretched thing      
and finally my hands grabbed hold of....a wing!      
     
The things unfurled from my back as if on cue      
Large, dove-white wings with specks of grey and blue      
Drops of blood marred the glossy sheen      
Little spots of imperfection on--dare I say it?--My wings!      
My mind swirled      
What reason for this, this wicked growth?      
Have I gone mad?      
I fell to my knees and pounded the sand,      
Lost grip on what little sense I had.      
Over and over I beat the earth      
Blaming the gods, the sea, the dragon, the birds      
What abomination had I become?      
What cosmic cruelty was Fate bestowing on me?      
Come to win a battle of honor for my brothers      
Defeated by my dragon lover      
Conquered battered, bruised by grief      
Bewildered by wings unsheathed      
Lost here with no direction, no hope      
....not even a scrap of clothing      
Just a...monster      
Facing an eternity of self-loathing      
The shoreline took my repeated blows in stride      
I flung my fists at it until      
the outgoing tide      
when exhaustion broke my will.      
The darkness came      
before my fists finally stilled      
     
Hysterics cast aside      
My hands raw and bloody      
I reached toward my back again      
to feel the new addition to my body      
     
Stiff and sore, my bache still ached      
But a new feeling started to emerge      
Light as air the wings flexed and flapped against the darkness of the night      
And something primal urged      
and bid me to fly,      
to rip right through the heavenly veil.      
I hesitated, bracing for this first flight,      
when I heard a voice inside my head      
You are the one, it said      
It was his voice, deep and sincere      
And I flung myself from the earthbound sand into the sky      
Reaching out for that voice I recognized      
     
It spoke again the words he said before      
But this time his words resonated in the air      
It felt like he was really there      
His words a warm embrace      
I looked around for him      
As a sudden wind whipped at my hair.      
He was nowhere I could see      
but in my mind I heard him speak once more,      
of the ancient prophecy      
The gods will bring the angel of water, delivering her to the demon in the sky      
But what wasn't laid bare in those words, was that my demon was to die.      
     
Heart broke open, afresh with pain and guilt      
I descended from the air      
Falling limply to the ground      
Hurt, aching, despair.      
Enemy turned lover, impaled by my own sword and perished      
Here, alone, without the adversary that I've come to cherish.      
     
Death never came for me.      
Weeks went by as I hid myself in the dragon's lair      
Ashamed of my forbidden love,      
Of what I'd done,      
My wings..I was no longer an elf...      
I didn't know what to think of myself      
Angry at the cursed feathers that broke my ties      
To the race I once belonged to      
Broken,      
Boundless, yet isolated      
I couldn't return to the home I knew.      
     
Weeping gave way to weariness      
Emptiness, lonliness      
Until, one day...      
I felt something      
A whirling twirling sensation      
Like a calling, speaking, forming      
Lodged deep within me, somewhere between my bones      
Then suddenly it stood still.      
Moments later it came again, a gentle force      
Something outside of my own will.      
I am going mad, for sure, I knew      
In my head I heard soft sounds, a purring.      
I could no longer keep insanity at bay      
But it seems so real, was I truly imagining this?      
Or...was this...      
     
Rinay?      
I gasped! I felt the speechless movement of my lips      
As words failed to materialize      
I stood amazed      
and looked to the cloudless, azure sky      
How on earth did the dragon know?      
...and how didn't I?      
And then a cooing thrummed through my mind      
Impossible to ignore      
I felt her presense, a solid being,      
reverberating in my core      
I sobbed through laughter that came in fits and spurts      
I soared upward, upward more,      
 until my body shook so hard it hurt      
All this time I grieved the dragon who had fallen into the blue      
Believing him betrayed by fate and prophecies, but now I know...      
     
He knew.