Drawn Quiet

Kind words echo in empty halls

Witness to it all

Bare and brave

Lonely knave

Simple simplicity

Future so near

Impatient in waiting

Scoffing at fear

Stiff resolution

Continued rebuff

Flexing my muscles

Acting so tough

Behind my demeanor

I've hidden the fear

I dare not confide

Not instead I draw near

So many illusions

The shadows play dice

My loves laid as bets

Gambling with what's not mine

In the evening quiet

I look hard to see

The only one playing

The shadows and me

In full battle armor

I rise to me feet

Consider the darkness

Refusing defeat

The clang of my metal

Echos the night

Draw fast my rapier

Slaying the night

I am not astonished

When morning I see

All has drawn quiet

Love has left me

Reviews

[Rosalind Gale]

''The shadows play dice'' - I love that, I can see it now, in my mind's eye. I suppose it is a downbeat ending (which I am always fond of) and yet, at the same time I felt a sort of philosophical exceptance of it. Thanks!

Rosa -x-

[Rusty]

I wood if I could chuck wood.

[Muse]

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