Shadows Of Yesterday

Blinded by tears from tails of yore

Shadowed realms slept in ignorant bliss

The leaders of each coward and weak

Climbed to new heights promising peace

Lined in the veils of calming speech

Battlements formed beneath clouds of night

Brethrens summoned from a corrupted kin

The lines of war drew in curves upon sands of red

But among the rage lived two pure of soul

Protecting each self with unrivaled love

Bracing the rain of crimson tears

They dispelled the shroud of amassing fears

Among the masses of deadening soul

She harvested hope upon morbid dread

Rallying the people with words of joy

She brought doom to its lifeless end

Whereas he fought to keep the spirit alive

Rekindling love for one's fellow man

Continuing to engage in an unfruitful goal

He longed for one thing above all else…

As harbingers came foretelling tails of death

Summoners were called to defend thy lands

Hearts pure and of noble intent,

They marched into the fields of deadening light

Eyes of old but youth of self,

She too was called to form the lines

Fearing not the times of late

Hope traveled to the one she so loves most

Accepting not her promise of return

He left in haste to bring the calm

Ravaged by hate upon fear and upon hope

Leaving her without a moment of lasting embrace

Fighting away shattering screams

Each telling lies of forbidden halt

He dove within the cavern beneath foreign lands

Both in soul and physical right

Believing this above all else

He began the songs…requiem to the strangled calm

But as he played with continuing passion

Shadows of death played in his mind

With one bellowing scream

His orchestra ended turning to whom he sought to protect

Speaking words in visible passion

She stopped his act of rash descent

Without fear and without love,

Soldiers of late rushed to comply

Leveling guns in the shadows of power

Breaking the embers of kindled flames

Two souls died… ending all hope of man