I have to try

Publication date: 2023-10-23

Title: I have to try

Type: Poetry

Publication: Rinnan Lit.

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In the land of hooded knights, I have to try.

With feathered ink to establish power and by

striking words to defeat the iron-clad fighters.

Stone-guarded towers shall crack under the bones

they buried, the lust they shared and

the land they claimed, all veiled in the name of greatness.

But now the steel, in the hands of these mounted iron beasts,

shall be too heavy to bear… against the truths of men.

And with each readied blow, they’ll see themselves

in those bright dying eyes.

That fire within that vision tamed, with the blood they claimed, shall never

ease their pain. As they wash the blood off the shining white,

the echoes of the blinding red and black shall reveal their faulty, corrupt pasts.

And even upon my death; when that of my blood runs dry;

the streets will flow blessed free and they’ll sing my name.

For here lived he, who trembled not,

and with bright truth fought all that wicked-iron wrought.

I left