The Last Battle
The sun was set
The bonfire danced
Evil loomed, a threat
Evil troops advanced
The battle raged on
The enemy stronger
Would it last till the dawn?
Would it go ever longer?
The stable drew near
The door opened black
No chance to have fear
No chance to fall back
The Narnians dying
The Calormenes leading
No time to be crying
No time to be pleading
The worst seemed behind
The worst seemed ahead
No answer to find
No words to be said
The doom growing nigh
The door gaping wide
One by one bade goodbye
One by one forced inside
…
The stable was bright
The dirt washed away
Never another cruel night
Never another bad day
For the war was now finished
The judgment attended
Narnia diminished
Narnia ended.
Ooh; I like this Elanor. I always appreciate formal poetic structures, and yours is really interesting (abab with repeated or partly repeated first words). Did you make up the structure yourself or base it on an existing form?
Once a daughter of Eve. Now a daughter of the Second Adam.
Well thank you Ajjie. 😀
Um, I think I made up the structure. The repeating of the words was actually an accident at first. I think the first few stanzas I had written repeated words so I just decided to do it for the entire poem so it wouldn't look out of place. 🙂
