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| Author: | Linwe [ May 22nd, 2006, 8:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Survivor's Guilt |
Survivor’s Guilt Into the barren fields of fading sunlight He walketh alone, grim and fearless The dry wind on his face for sole companion Still flushed by the ethereal dance of clashing iron Into the deserted field where no bird sings His hollow, crimson mind remembereth Every step he taketh with solemn cry In the clear dawn where end began With the tearing echo of battle horns And music of spreading banners Heralding the charging passage Of the Company in gleaming steel Long did their youthful will cross harsh fury Scratching their bold hope with each blow And swiftly shattered their proud shields Ere the darkening of their doomed fate And thus amongst the scars of war he walketh All mirth and blissful triumph blown away By the sorrowful vision of those Who followed the departing sun Abashed, his helmet he taketh And kneeleth amid his fallen brothers Addressing a dour litany to his heathen Gods His tears cleansing the soil ground Why, quoth he to the shadows of dusk Hath he borne in loneliness The sight of such direful death? Thus was the agony of survival Everlasting guilt to roam the earth |
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| Author: | Hanasian [ August 13th, 2016, 8:42 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Survivor's Guilt |
Ten years and months too late, why did I not see this beautiful poem before now? Why has not the passing years not brought fair comment at all? I am sure you have long since departed into the west and will not see this, but thank you Linwe for sharing this! |
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| Author: | Jax Nova [ November 9th, 2016, 10:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Survivor's Guilt |
Same here. It is a lovely piece, yet far too late. There is a lot of pieces like that I wager. |
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