Ode To Twilight: Entropy

by Scriblits Talo

Rating: everyone
Tags: Twilight Sparkle, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Length: 1044

Written for the 2024 Poetry Contest https://www.fimfiction.net/group/1089/folder/83278/2024-poetry-contest-submissions- Twilight at the edge of time

An ancient tradition among the ponies of Equestrea(From long before the printing- press or even paper) Is the telling of stories. Often these stories would be told again and again, they would be told as songs, as pomes, so as to not be forgotten, so that the heroes that gave them birth would not fade.

This is one such pome, an ode as old as time, an alicorn who gave something precious, to save every-pony, every-creature, to save her friends.

It is an ancient chant much worn for time and poor translation, but not forgotten.

Published 2024-10-05 09:10:01 UTC
Last updated 2024-10-05 09:10:01 UTC

V

It made her tremble to remember
He, he had offered her a deal
Coins rattled against fate’s table

In all of time, in all of life
There are things that should never be
Lo an Alicorn cried that day

His fate sealed, she signed her name
What was hope worth if for this
Darkness crumbled to Twilight's quill

Of all the tragic days
Oh, why should time spin on
Fate cried that day, fate cried

Equestria had been saved
The darkness had been razed
Banners waved and trumpets flared

And it was a tragic day
Lo a day of mourning
The day twilight forgot her friends

There was not another way
But perhaps not all was lost, for
Somewhere deep down she knew

.I

But hark, hark this story of woe
Huddle near the midnight grows close
Listen close the stars are singing

Hear now the glimmering of bells
Quietly note the passing time
She is up there amongst the stars

Memory is an odd thing
Have you cried, not knowing why
A torn heart needn't not know why

And so above stars spin
Below reflections shine
Beyond memories wait

Darkness lays wait beyond
Many things to be feared
Dears, do not fear beyond

As long as you have your friends
Garner them at your side
All things can not last but some should.

This is of one that did last
She who glimmered dawn in the dark
In those days was darkness

.II

A dusk at the edge of time
A purple star upon the night
She wonders at what had once been

In the end no-pony remained
Forever now that dream was stained
A silver thread upon silken dark.

What had been will never be
They gallop on the mind's eye
The memories of younger days.

Oh how unkind time’s lens
She could not remember
The faces of her friends

She balanced upon the
Very edge, upon the
Universe’s repand

Although she could not remember
That endless golden hour
The time of hope, that time of light

She held one truth at heart
A wind against that sea of lies
A dawn against the dark

.III

She had known friends, once long ago.
When she was young, her world still new
Harmony’s seeds, then still to sow.

She shook her head, stars glittering
In her main, that twinkle in night
A tear glistens across her cheek.

Although she remembers not(naught)
She, She has not forgotten
Forever in ages lost

She gave it all for them
She grasped for them, She grasped
Faces, memory, gone

But then also she cried
For she knew what was lost
To her still they mattered

And she gave it all for them
So, so they might live
Cry, cry, cry, you twilit dawn

She had been a regal thing
A light against the growing dark
And now, she, she was gone.

.IV

Lo who would offer such a choice
A wretched evil unkind choice
That evil will remain unnamed

She was like sunlight against dew
A feather against the moons hue(hew)
She was music upon the wind

He came to her with a deal
Equestrea, his prey shook
A darkness fell upon the land

Her friends stood by her side
Radiance of harmony
Would peace drown his growing darkness

Nay, neigh the shadows did fall
And she was left, cold, and alone
Hope, hope was not all lost

.VI

Sing me a song about the dusk
Sing a song about the twilight
Sing a song about hope in night

Evil undone by its own hoof
Darkness parted by growing dawn
Hope in the blight, light in the night.

She left me in the morning
She battled on through the night
I hope she remembers my name

Oh Twilight, Oh Twilight
Oh the dusk has fallen
Oh the dusk has fallen

Oh Twilight, Oh Twilight
Oh the dusk has fallen
I remember her name

Twilight do you remember me
Do you remember me
Will you remember me tomorrow

Twilight, Twilight, remember me
Sing me a song about the twilight
Sing to me of the dawn

.VII

Sparkling against the darkness
Shimmering in the endless night
Singing a sparrow in the wind

Sinking in endless runes of time
The slivers of dusk like honey
Hope, hope against the edge of all

We remember her dearly
Her dream, her dream is our dream
She alone stood against the dark

Time an endless river
History etched in stone
What remains at end of all

For the end of the world
But the beginning of what
But the remembrance

.IIX

Here she sat at the edge of all
Her heart clear as glass her eyes blind
Something changed at times end

The deal broken,the chains undone
In the end no-pony remained
And twilight,Twilight remembered

Friendship outlasted the end
Times raze and evils undoing
And Twilight, Twilight remained

Upon those wretched shores
The void, the cold abound
Trembling,she remembered

The evil could do nothing
The deal was broken, she remained
Her power at once unbound

.IX

She stood midnight against ichor
Time spun out before her an endless sea
Before her that woeful weave

She clutched, in her sparkle that silver thread
For once gazed upon what could be
The intricate lattice of all

She endeavored against not
She pricked her hoof at the needle
Blood red against the folds of time

Yet she endeavored
Long into eternity
A labor passion’s sweet

All of time she sought to make
All dreams set from her end
Twilight, Twilight maker of dawn

Bleed sweat against the undoing
Remember them for they are why
She remembered their faces

.X

Pale contrast to darkest hour
Now in the end, nothing to mend
Here she sat at the edge of all

She gave them up so they might live
The deal of sorrow disrepair
She gained anew her dearest friends
Dearest, will you remember her?
A torn heart needn’t know why
It trembles against the darkness

But know dearest, she listens
She hears your calls in the darkness
She knows you fear the coming storm

She remembers your pain
It aches her tender heart
Lo she helps where she can

Remember Twilight dearest
Remember her silver thread