Wow, I'm impressed. This is a great poem and I really like your style and word choice. Some of the rhymes weren't perfect (escape and blade, for instance), but it worked out very well, and in the end it didn't matter. In the forth line of the last stanza you wrote "Our our strong will to survive," but I think that was the only typo. Wonderful job! I will definitely read more of your poetry.
Daughter of the Faeries