Falcon2001 Posted August 5, 2002 Report Share Posted August 5, 2002 Dressed in red, with eyes of frost His weapons steel and sharp His disposition cold and lost He wanders alone throughout time He fought along with good King Arthur And settled ties with Genghis Kahn He's blasted men with deadly light And seen the passing of eons to come He stood upon the battlefield And gazed at the carnage all 'round And then he smiled with sleepy eyes And walked on toward the town He's killed more men than any man alive And saved more lives too Colder than an ice floe Smooth as any rhyme The hated man of heaven The Bastard of Time His sword's a bastion of unending life And his clothes are red with blood His friends are none but war and strife And his only home, the mud He'll keep fighting until he can no more For that's the way he lives His life it yields to no deadly threat And only god does he revere He protects the needy and helps the poor Saving the worthless and downtrodden His fear is naught for he is sere A fearful man with eyes of frost An edged glacier is all that's left Of what used to be his heart He's the one that time forgot The deathless man that God brought A husk, a shell, a sunken rime The worthless wasted Bastard of Time His tale is fierce and full of shame He has a grasp of nothing real He lives in eternity of darkened fear Nothing less, a broken seal So fear the man with eyes of frost A sword of light, and clothes of blood For he'll bring your soul to eternal loss And show you to the other side The fallen angel, the angel of death A man who's job is certainly bereft Of love and virtue, kindness and pain The Bastard of Time, the hell's own gain. Cioden Darkeye Quill-Bearer - The Pen is Mightier than the Sword President of the Peredhil Fan Club Owner of the Reply Raven - Enemy to all those who never post responses Ashaman - WoT - Blitz II Council - The Hunters - Blitz II Leisure Officer - SFV Ultima - Beta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyrfalcon Posted August 6, 2002 Report Share Posted August 6, 2002 Hmm... fairly good poem, Falcon. Actually, the 'Bastard of Time' reminds me of a series of books I've seen before: Casca, the Eternal Mercenary. Basically, he was the Roman legionaire who stabbed Christ in the side. In return (repayment?), Christ made Casca immortal until they should meet again. No matter what happens to him, Casca can't die. And since all he's really known is fighting, he goes around killing people, fighting in every major war. Basically, it was a vehicle for the author to write battle stories anywhere in history, but this reminded me of the character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annael Posted August 6, 2002 Report Share Posted August 6, 2002 Like Gyr, this poem reminds me something, infact, it's the movie Dracula 2000. In it Dracula is actually Judas, hence the hatred of silver. His curse, to live forever for betraying the life of his god... I like the poem, a lot of imagery, well written. And enjoyable read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Xradion Posted August 6, 2002 Report Share Posted August 6, 2002 I enjoyed the poem a lot. Sounds to me like a commentary on the endless wars of man, as well as an excellent fable-poem. You did, however, leave me wondering: If this man is the Bastard child of Time, then who is Time's mistress-and perhaps more importantly, who is Time's wife? Perhaps humanity itself is the Bastard of Time, the one species that mass-murders it's own kind. Then again, I'm probably tring to over-analyze this. Besides, that last comment of mind is a pretty depressing thought, so I think I'll stop now. "If you are the god, then who am I? Am I the God of Nothing?" -------Fasio Xradion, The Horny Druid, Scholar of the Ancient Arts, Holder of the Eye of Odin. "The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream." -Wallace Stevens "When at home, do as the Homans do." –Xradion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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