Execution: A Skyrim Poem
Trundling inside a cart
The world fades into sight
The sun is glaring in my eyes
So blinding is the light
I look around, my head still aches
From what, I can't recall
I try to rub the pain away
But cannot move at all
I am about to speak aloud
When then I hear a voice
It comes from straight across from me
The man sounds rather hoarse
"Hey you're finally awake?"
Who is this man I see
Why can't I remember
What has occurred to me?
The man was saying something,
An 'ambush' or some such.
Was I captured as a criminal?
I guess they thought as much.
Another voice arose just then
Coming from a thief
About a horse and Hammerfell.
This was all beyond belief.
Where was I now? What could I do?
Why was I locked up?
The men continue arguing
The driver says "shut up!"
The man says to the wondering thief
"That is the true High King!"
The thief is startled, even scared
"Us, where are they taking?"
The man replies he does not know
But Sovngarde awaits.
And though I know not what that is
We're already at some gates
The town unfolds before us
The people warily gaze
The man says that he knows this place
From back in younger days
The carts come crashing to a stop
We all start to get out
We form a line as names are called
One by one, they shout
The thief could sit still no more
And so he tries to run
They shoot him down in seconds
Well, that option is gone
They call all of the names but mine
They call me to end the row
They ask me who I am and thus
I tell them all I know
I'm not listed? Am I free?
No, the captain shakes her head.
Regardless of the mix up,
They want to see me dead!
The General mocks the High King
And a noise then fills my ear
It sound so odd, familiar
I feel it drawing near
I stand there in the chopping line
The rites are cut off fast
The man who interrupted
Soon has breathed his last
His head removed, they move along
Next is my turn to die
I am not really worried
Although I don't know why
There is a tension in the air
The cause is drawing near
The ax-man raises up his blade
When suddenly we hear
"What in Oblivion is that?"
And I know the fight's begun
With a crash the tower shakes
And someone screams "DRAGON!"