Poetry

I feel safer posting this here rather than on the Writers Forum, Jaleh keeps saying I should put it up somewhere so here it is. This poem was written based on events of a character of mine in a LARP, I had decided a few months prior to stop playing the character and was later convinced to bring him back into game so had to come up with a good reason, hence the poem.

The character had jumped into a portal leading to a Chaos plane and was rescued by an unlikely source. The italicized parts are supposed to be like a voice whispering int he back of your mind.

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Alone

Rivers awash in scarlet hues
The sun is setting
And in my mind I am alone

The shifting portal beckons me
In my mind I am alone
I take a breath, let's go and see

What terrors now attack
While in my mind I am alone
The battle begins I can not go back

Water and Earth I throw
For in my mind I am alone
Fire and Wind force them to slow

I seek a doorway, a portal home
For in my mind I am alone
AHH!!! There it is the precious tome.

It holds the key to my friend
For in my mind I am alone
The beast is there and seeks to end

My sacred quest, my one true goal
To keep me in my mind alone
Its claws are sharp, its eyes like coal

I will in glory laden be
If not in my mind alone
If conquer I this thing before me

My spells all fail, my daggers break
truly in my mind alone
And in my boots do I begin to quake

An almost endless eternity
To be in my mind alone
Was I tortured by that twisted sea

And then to my wonder
Maybe not in my mind alone
Something my bonds do sunder

One left behind safe and sound
I thought I was in my mind alone
Has come and brought me safe to ground

Escorted by one I thought
In my grieving mind alone
His freedom I was to have bought

They share a smile and fading away
While in my mind I grieve alone
But as they go I hear them say

"Your duties done for a time"
While in my mind I cry alone
"Remember happiness is not a crime"

I will my friends see again one day
And not in my mind remain alone
When need I here no longer stay

My story done, for a time
In my mind I am not alone
I pray to thee to remember my crime

Remain not in your mind alone
I realize now what I should have known
There are always friends to bring you home