Trials
By Ace Warbringer
Of all the roads, I have walked,
The trials I have faced
Battles fought in Snow and blood,
Enemies laid Waste.
I search for answers, evermore,
My trials, unending count,
I march in Sand and blood,
Questions only Mount.
They asked me questions true,
In trials by the book,
Made to answer in Law and blood,
Caught upon their Hook.
Naught I am, but Machine
My trials answer told,
Truth is found in Heart and blood,
As man, I grow Old,
I disobey, their orders wrong,
Their trials, to break me,
Bound no more in Soul and blood,
Now, I am free.
To search upon any find,
To trials I must face,
To find Her by Trace and blood
My debt, I must Erase.
Armor worn about my self
Won in trials, square,
It carried Her in War and blood,
And now I only Despair.
Her whispered voice haunts me still,
My trials must be won,
Heard through only Time and blood,
Of armor, my heart has none.
No mantle I will take,
No trials empty Curse,
I make this oath, in Rhyme and blood,
This promise, to Her, in Verse.
Now I walk these empty roads,
My trials answer found,
Answers came in Mind and blood,
My heart, to Her, be Bound.