Couplet Of The Duelists

The battle of two knights

Whose blades are in flight

One fell swoop and it's Edens curse

For better and for worse

One shall fall and join the heavenly host

 Fall to blade and embrace of the holy ghost

Offering to the reaper of souls

When slain its beyond your control

Battle pyres burning bright

Each blade reflecting glimmering light

Furies reaching for the sky

Now one must die

I'll write the eulogy for you

Whom ever is run on through

Cold is the stream

This is real and not a dream

Colder is the blood

Pooling on the duel ground's mud

Cold is the dark

Where death sings like a lark

Colder their  hearts

As the duel unfolds and starts

Lifeless in her  arms

Fallen for blade's charms

Dark tale of a dark blade

Who in battle the price was paid

Poetry of poisonous lies

Believing they could not die

Now defeat says I'm his keeper

Azrael comes ghost and reaper

Grim verse from a grim soul

I write it didn't have much control

History of heartless on the dueling field

Where one must fall dead on their shields


Hollow and so forlorn

As the flesh and armor is torn


The painful scream of a parted femur


Dreams of victory dashed by the slain dreamer

Dead oaths from the fall

Broken words from the call


For the loser it's a fade to black

A life that will never come back

A dark emporium of slain

Run by lady pain

Where nothing's what it seems

As death awakes us from life's dream


For the loser run on through

Death's shadow  call you