Rustling scales, restless twitching wings
Blue eyes searching the horizon
Tongue wetting lips tight with tension
Deep impatient rumbling in a smouldering belly
Sensitive to the vibrations on the ether
The smell of apprehension on the heart of soul
A flick of a tail, a twitch of a tightening muscle
Heavily scaled skin ripple, as energy caress it.
Large horned head dip low, breathing the flow
Tasting and testing the tension in the ground.
Loudly expelled breath, clearing the senses
Heavy head snap up, eyes scanning the stars.
The enemy is shifting, gathering to move
Their smouldering intention already noted…
One head split to many, each tasting the level of soul
Weighing the feel of the intentions on the flow
A crescent star flash, the glint of a blade, in the shadow
Blue eyes; turn to blood, as it follows the move
The rumbling change, the vibration gathers
Many heads return to one, and seek
Beyond the flash of the shadow’s blade.
Shinning scales turn to shadow, blending,
Fading into the shadows cast by the flow
Slender neck pulled into striking position
Waiting, tasting, watching the shadow
One shadow become many, deepening the dark
Scaled skin ripple, with silent stealth
32 shadows move as one, followed by bloody eyes
That already know the position they seek
When will the crescent star learn, that their souls
Are known and loved by the one they hunt, so deeply
That they blue eyes know the truth, in their lies.
These eyes saw the truth they hid in the forest
A forest that hid a crescent star and a pope
A bag of gold, a contract made, with the trees as witness
To the deed that left sacred knights staring
Upon the sky with lifeless eyes, their name sullied
Crescent star and a pope, your deed witnessed by
One that know your soul, know your greed
The lust of your power, engraved in your soul
As those you slayed lay bleeding, in your shame
Your souls as dark as the shadows you use
Sinking a blade between the scales of the one you seek
Will not erase the shame of your deeds
That is engraved into the recesses of your soul
So many times you came for this one
When will you admit the shame in your soul?
Do you not realise that to receive forgiveness
Your shame must be revealed, and the injustice repaired
Lay down your blade shadow, you do not wish to die today
“Never!” the answer come, the same need no witness
“So be it”, the scaled shadow sighed, and rumbled
The movement silent, precise, and 32 of shame
Lay staring with blank eyes towards the sky
Blood eyes return to blue, and silent tears,
Trace paths over shadowy scales
The heavy head, turn and pull out the one blade
That hit true, between heavy scales, freeing the flow of blood
No amount of blood from the witness of the shame
Can erase what’s done, by a crescent star and a Pope
Only the truth, can find forgiveness, to soothe
The shame engraved in their souls
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