tl;dr : I’m back. This will not be my main blog, but I will be following a theme here. I feel like I have to split my writing now. I probably won’t get many subscribers here, but that’s okay. If you want to subscribe you are more than welcome to do so…if you don’t, that’s okay too. I am not playing that game any more.
Back in the saddle and reins
Not on a strong destrier
Or a fancy Arab mare
I’m not out for some campaign
I’m just riding in the rain
My horse is the worse for wear
It’s hauling more than its fair share
As we wander this bloody plain
The pack horse is in some pain
It needs some urgent health care
We can’t give in to despair
While tied to this mortal chain
My horse goes lame and my efforts of aid in vain
Only kindness left is a bullet to the brain
But after the second shot it runs yet again
Exorcism is a dangerous thing,
That only a mad mad man would attempt
To put it physically, it’s like the One Ring
But you can’t just throw it in the pyro tent
You have to jump in with it, a scalding visit
To Mount Doom, purgatory, not a Room with a View
Tackle the demon and not let your grip slacken
As you fall together and watch the world blacken
The journey turns you into something ugly
A chimera that even you despise
Until you come out to do it again.
Honey from the hive, unrefined, two fifty a kilo
The tapper has brought a bucket before I can say no
Filled with that sweet golden liquid, wax and dead worker bees
He puts some of it in water, to test the purity
And gives me a broken comb to chew on, it’s just like gum
He’s a shrewd businessman, bargains ensue with his honeyed tongue
I buy ten kilos for a thirty percent discount, when really I wanted none
(Maybe I can try to brew some mead, or add it to my tea)
Muscles ache, eyes weary, the war was lost, we run, we flee
A hay bed beckons my head in a stable, horses neigh
Sleep at last, my eyes close, glimpsing nightmares, my memories
My parents’ unavenged murder, and friends I was forced to slay
My companions wake me, we’re being chased,
They point to the next hill, at a torch trail
A fiery snake
A thousand riders
To catch five survivors
We who survived the fire lake
We split up to confuse the trail
Riding as fast as we dare
Without light, without bronze (and) mail
Fear fills me everywhere
Our pursuers do not split,
They chase after me with unity
My fear then transforms
Anger feeds my storm
My horse topples down and I wait for the enemy
One against a thousand, the odds are against me
An owl screams from the trees, “Noo Noo, easy peasy”
I chose my spot, and wait with moon sword and sun shield
As dawn breaks I kill the last man while he tries to yield.