A blooming heart

 
A blooming heart      

Born in a land apart


Is touched by light

Forged by a knight


He cradles this life

Intent on keeping it from strife


But there are those

That seek to impose


War and devastation

That will cover every nation


That blooming heart

Born in a land apart


Will learn from the knight

Of the lands dire plight


Of shadows that veil the land

And evil that has taken its stand


Of vile ruts that have driven deep

And fouler things that begin to creep


Leading all to the fall of a king

On the cold eve of spring


That blooming heart

Born in a land apart


Holds the key to change

But there is a price for such an exchange


The shadows will fight

Their blades instilling fright


The oppressed will rise

To bring evils demise


Steel will sing the symphony of sorrow

That can only be heard on the morrow


That blooming heart

Born in a land apart


Will lead the people

To the gates of the castle steeple


There the final chorus is played

The knight struck down by the shadows blade


Victory tainted by defeat


The knight’s last words “My task complete”


The one he raised from a land apart

Held him cradled near her heart


No longer that youth

Her heart holds a bitter truth


War will take from every heart

With no intent of returning a part


The knight was carried home

Laid to rest no longer to roam


To honor the knight

She will take no respite


Peace holds the land as time goes on

In the passing of years she comes upon


A child

Left in the wild  


Across the road their eyes met

She beheld the payment of her debt