Yes, Dirty Larry (or firefly) got inspired when he download a new song. He worked 'till 3 am and his parents kicked his ass, so here's a little poem he came up with while listening to the same song three hundred times in a row. It's a little ditty about Link and his feelings after Ocarina of Time, and during its ending. Shame, it has no rhythm or rhyme...so I guess it's just free form.


Tides of Times

Lying face-down in the dirt I cry
Salty tears mixing with the barren earth
To form a ringing sound
Of melancholic loss

I'm sitting in the mud
Playing this melody to myself
Watching the orange petals fall
Upon my stainless hands

The tide of the times are rising
To sweep me away from this land
Of desolate dreams and grieving hearts
To the place where I belong
While I listen to the slow, gentle
Pace of parting

Lying on a sheet of white
A river well-worn overflows
With pain and sorrow
And a well-worn course is tread upon again

I'm sitting by the fire
Playing this melody to myself
The orange petals of innocence
Have fallen off my hands

The tide of the times are rising
White wheels are turning
As they bear us away from each other
To an age that has passed me by
While I listen to the violent, torrentuos
Emotions of goodbye

Engraved into my memories
Are pictures of the two of us
Sitting by the fire, and crying
As the orange petals wither away

The tides of the times sweep me away
As the dawn carriage bears me
To those days where I have nothing
And all that was mine has disappeared
While right and wrong vanish before me
Into the pulse of farewell


I'm sorry that this work isn't very good; it's my very first poem, and as such, I'm not used to poems, but I try. So I do hope that you'll R&R for me, especially all LoZ shippers. The "us" is up to you to intepret; I don't care if you're a Zelink, Malink, Rulink, Salink, whatever. Just read and review. Thanks-Dirty-Larry (aka firefly)