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Poetry News Post #4570

A Neutral(ish) Take

Written by: Head Harlequin Sillias An'bhaird, The Escape Artist
Date: Friday, January 10th, 2014
Addressed to: Everyone




Some have said chaos will bring to an end
All of creation. Breaks, what won't bend.
But what cause for alarm, so sharp or mild
Has you quiver with fear like a young orphan child?

What evidence have you for the end of the world?
What is your sign that to darkness we're hurled?
The word of the masses, heretics and doomsayer?
The word of a God whom you shun from all prayer?

Is it the Reaver that gave you a frown?
Creation will end like the day Shallam drowned?
If you haven't noticed, he's now lost to the ages,
Yet nothing but wrath fills your edicts and pages.

Is it the Lord of Evil that makes you all shiver?
The thought of Oppression makes you all quiver?
Like it or not, Evil's Yang to your Yin,
It's inate in creation, for all Good there's Sin.

Does Death make you chatter, quake in your boots?
Life is to Death as seeds are to roots.
Life will begin, and life will then end,
So why does cause for alarm does this send?

Is there something I'm missing? Some blatant sign
That vultures and crows on our corpses will dine?
Is the earth shaking, flooding, or burn?
Those are all skills with lessons we earn.

The quarrels of man and the quarrels of More
Will turn this world to what you all abhore.
Put down your swords and try a new advances,
Lest will the Creation end it's good dances.

Life will go on, Chaos, Evil, or Good,
Life goes on as Sarapin said it should.
Whether you accept that is your call to make,
But when raising a sword, there's more lives at stake.


Penned by my hand on the 15th of Chronos, in the year 644 AF.


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