The Vanquished and the Valkyrie
To bloodied warriors torn apart
Whose fire fell from battlefields
To every soldier pierced in heart
Dying on a broken shield
Sounds of war fade to stillness
Left with only falling snow
Failing eyes dance with darkness
And faintly follow life's last glow
Swaying, as a lantern glimmers
Fateful whispers, mere and light
Drift in half imagined shimmers
Ancients of the wintry night
Warming, shifting, they draw near
And gently whisper to the slain
Nordic tidings melt his fear
Quiescence to his mortal pain
Golden hairs caress his face
A smile crosses hardened features
Unnoticed, the once blackened space
Made brighter by the graceful creatures
Two forms pass beyond the bend
With unseen arcane subtlety
The warrior and an astral friend
The vanquished and the Valkyrie
Whose fire fell from battlefields
To every soldier pierced in heart
Dying on a broken shield
Sounds of war fade to stillness
Left with only falling snow
Failing eyes dance with darkness
And faintly follow life's last glow
Swaying, as a lantern glimmers
Fateful whispers, mere and light
Drift in half imagined shimmers
Ancients of the wintry night
Warming, shifting, they draw near
And gently whisper to the slain
Nordic tidings melt his fear
Quiescence to his mortal pain
Golden hairs caress his face
A smile crosses hardened features
Unnoticed, the once blackened space
Made brighter by the graceful creatures
Two forms pass beyond the bend
With unseen arcane subtlety
The warrior and an astral friend
The vanquished and the Valkyrie