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Author: Sael'Ka Shadow
Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Fantasy - Published: 11-09-06 - Updated: 11-09-06 - Complete - id:2273959

This... is something that probably needs a close reading to really appreciate, but I'm particularly fond of it nonetheless. Please, tell me what you think of it!


Away


The skirling wind is loud and free

(I must away, must fly away -)

The seagulls wheel and whistle me

to times away, far far away.

-

Rose wreathes the red and rising sun

through clouds of gold and fields of blue.

The dream has come, the night is done,

and terrors too (they are so few,

so fragile-few the ones who sing

when phantoms ride in daylight's death)

have died beneath Hope's clarion ring,

and Morning's glories draw fresh breath.

-

But thunder's waves roll three times three:

not all is dawn, not only day,

and spearpoint stars I cannot see

call me away, far far away.

-

And will I stay or will I go

from this strange land of sunhazed dreams?

Deception dances to and fro

in raiment wove withouten seams -

cry All for one! for one is All,

all whirling truth and bright-churned lie.

Coquettish Day caresses, thralls

in gentle words and laughing eyes.

-

Still through the dream comes ringing clear

the knowing of another way;

and falling fast and free I hear

fierce Faery's horns: Away, away!



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