For
all I have Loved and the roads there on.
Justin
Williams.
I have wandered the roads of the grim unquiet dead, and
feasted in the halls
were no mans foot has tread.
And I have drunk from the fountain in the black kings
hallowed hill, and
fled the ghostly hounds who serve their dead queen still.
And felt the warm embrace of the mistress of the fae , and
knelt before the
alter to morn a stillborn day.
And strode the plain of bones, where old gods met their
weird, and fought
through guarded castles where dwelt my darkest fears.
And voyaged into the veil of pain , of malice and of tears,
and their I
heard the music play that burned my youth and blew away my
cheer.
And I have walked the paths were darkness feared to tread,
and set the
throne of god ablaze to make the black things dread.
And plunged the bloodied blade into the frenzied throng, and
danced the ebon
ways until the final dawn.
And laughed at kings and danced with queens in the mud in
which we strode,
and loved the dark and loathed the light and chose the
crooked road.
And capered with pagan gods to no mans hollow tune, they
welcomed me with
open arms and made room in the cool and gloom.
Till I left them all to tell my tale, to fret and strut and
pierce the
pallid veil. To wield the pen and not the blade, to cut the
wrong to right,
and show one last true vision, before I leave the light.
To open the path, the winding way to the hollow beneath the
hills. So come
and dance with me ,through silver dawn and golden dusk and
wild enchanted
rings, till night does fall and magic fade and the last of
the banshee
sings.
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