Warrior's Last Stand

Mist and shadow

Clouding the warriors way

Treading till the end of time

Through death, till the break of dawn

And the worlds' alight

So that all may see his plight

Still he travels, ne're ending his quest

He knows that he may not be best

For fear that failure is his end





Steel and arrows, wood and flame

The battle ranges on to no end

He thinks of home and happiness

His motive for this war

Knowing he should be there instead

In his loving wife's arms

Their child he sees only in his mind

Though he knows he must fight

For the future of all mankind



The stars are his guide

The only light in the end

Life gone by, and now the afterlife he will tread

All he knows he repeats in his head

Resting peacefully, buried beneath a great tree

O're the years his body decays

Becoming part of the earth in which he lays

Knowing that now, like leaves in the fall

His body and memory shall fade

All shall fade, all shall… fade