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Shade's
Remembrance
Red
light infused dead dust with life;
he
was the one with glowing eyes
who
taught Shade how to live by lies,
the
remnants of defeat and strife.
The
closest friends, Blood Gem and Shade,
explored
the caves of both their minds,
discovered
both their separate kinds
in
private ways their world forbade.
Their
haven was a misty glade,
their
sprig of love a secret thing,
so
far removed from sunny spring
and
all its gaudy plant parade.
It
was a labyrinth of trees
and
glinting rock in grey and black;
once
there, they never wanted back
to
beg forgiveness on their knees.
And
beg they never did because
they
found they were not wrong at all,
but
still they had to heed the call
of
daylight's world, its stifling force.
The
obstacle they knew as life
came
in the shape of family,
who
found that the best remedy
for
their son's state would be a wife.
They
employed time and clever skill,
nursing
an infatuation
with
a beauty of his station
and
bending Blood Gem to their will.
While
strolling in the sunny park
with
Blossom, fragrant, soft and sweet,
Blood
Gem forgot through this new seed
his
Shade, alone, left in the dark.
So
glad and joyful was he, when
he
told Shade of his future bloom
and
all that Shade could hear was doom,
when
turned from 'love' to his 'best man'.
Shade
held a speech with so much cheer
as
you find in a crumbling grave;
yet
artful was he, and so brave
that
cheer was all Blood Gem could hear.
The
Shade, he did right by his friend.
Then
after, fireworks did start -
those
stars were his exploding heart
and
all his light died in the end.
("Write
your own set of four-lined Elegy stanzas. The theme is 'Remember,'
(...) Keep the rhyme pattern a-b-b-a, use as many stanzas as you
like, but maintain a consistent 8-syllable line.")
