Disclaimer: I do not own Matantei Loki Ragnarok. This poem is about the Trickster and his two most well-know sons – the line "everything changes, but nothing is lost" is taken from the comic Sandman, by Neil Gaiman.

Hourglass

Lord of serpents, subtle lies

Dancing in your twilight eyes

Cast from sky to freezing sea

Learning now how to be free.

Hope, that springs from every soul

Mends the rift and leaves you whole.

Elder paths too seldom crossed -

For all shall change. But nothing's lost.

OOO

Locked into a shell of rage

And ancient lies. Crammed in a cage

They offered you as sacrifice.

They left you bare before the ice.

The moon shall dance across the sky

To cleave the chain and fool the eye-

But still you must learn freedom's cost

For all things change. But nothing's lost.

OOO

Shadow in inferno's blaze

Old beyond the count of days.

Crimson intertwined with green

Hidden secrets never seen.

For now the skein is winding fast

But at whose hand? The die is cast.

Fiercest flame from chilling frost -

All shall change. But nothing's lost.