Cry the Tempest Knight

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TMindy Mensen S 111111111111 Darkness falls and kills the light, Sunlit shadows fade to night. Stars will hide as thunder crashes, Monsters come when lightning flashes. Sounds of things you dare not see, As silently it comes for thee. Rain falls like ice to sting the skin, And so, the beast must rise again. The howling wind brings voice and breath, Un-life that will not bow to death. The whirling clouds part to reveal, Eyes that glow and pierce like steel. Spine-numbing echoes shake the trees, As shapes appear in twos and threes. These are the monsters of the mind, That bars won’t trap, and chains won’t bind. They haunt a life embraced at death, And taunt him as he gasps for breath. Forgetting things that were before, He rides the storm along the shore. He lies awake, finds truth in sleep, And in his dreams, he learns to weep. A human spark that’s all but gone, Yet fading like a dying swan. Night by night he’ll watch the sea, And dream of things that cannot be, ‘Til all alone he waits on shore, To ride the tempest — evermore… Cry the Tempest Knight 111111111111111111111