You stood before us all that day

Your slitted eyes glimmered
Your weapon raised in defiance
Your soul against the elements

You had stepped in

Taking everything for yourself

All to spare her the harm

Yet now you faced us instead.

But I couldn't ask them

I couldn't demand of the elements

Not anymore than you could

Or so I thought

For then they shun
For you they answered
For the call was just

I cried out in vain

For I couldn't lose you

And you couldn't lose us

Why would magic corrupt?
Why would loyalty surrender?
Why did kindness crumble?
Why did laughter end?
Why would generosity falter?
Why would honesty lie?

Why did empathy have to die that day?

My questions remaind unsung

For the light never falters

For as the sun sets

The moon raises

Since time immemorial

Till memory draws its last grasp.

Author's Note

I've never tried writing poetry before, so, here goes nothing I suppose. Probably the biggest issue for me writing something like this is that I don't *read* poetry. As interesting and respectable I find it on a technically level, I generally find reading poetry very dull.

But if you don't read it then that makes it hard to *write it*, since you've got no context for how it's supposed to go.

Still, I'm trying to get into song writing for another story of mine, which is slightly similar so maybe this is good practice? I left the character tags of this story at "others" because while this story does deal with canon characters, I feel like it fits better for the reader to judge who and what the story is about.