A short fictional piece about a warrior and his home in the valley |
Light slowly falling reaches the silent valley once again Hidden in the nothingness of the earth Forests, mountains, rivers, revealed in the nothingness The misty outline of a once great civilization Water slowly dripping breaks the silence once again Past dense forests the sheltered temple is revealed The trees don't stop but instead take a different form Once a great temple has now become a green tomb Temple end and forest beginning is non existant The mist thickens and as the light begins to dim A lone figure emerges From the nothingness he is born silent as the land around him Silent are the trees silent are the birds silent are the rivers All encased in a sheet of snow He stands there like a wall of steel Listening for the earth mountains river and trees To reveal the sounds of a land once prosperous A place he called home before the war He stood alone among his brothers in arms Outspoken against the atrocities his government had him commit In the final moments before his fate was sealed He fell silent and seemed to go into a deep slumber But when he emerged from his deep slumber he turned into a force beyond comprehension Cutting down old friends and new enemies The blood soaked battlefield became heavy in red mist in the morning He stood alone breathing hard among the piles of bodies As he fell to his knees he let out a cry and was banished from the empire he once fought so hard to protect So he starts his journey to the place he once called home To his dismay he found an empty village and ash Only the temple remained Where he would play with the monks in his youth The hallowed halls that once echoed laughter and cheer were now silent as the land surrounding it He vowed to seek repentance for his sins and to seek an answer as to why this happened,so he lived alone Sun and moon seemed to become one after the many years he spent alone Uttering no words for fear of upsetting the ones he loved even further The land stood still and all was silent for he was no longer a man but part of the silence and the land that surrounded him A lone warrior now stood before the world and gazed into the stars and heavens Hoping to find the answers to all his questions He never stopped seeking his answers from above And as time slowly passed his body began to transform He turned to stone and was silent forever more He stands alone still trying to find his answers only to be a permanent guardian in his once lively home A reminder to any who may stumble across this peacefull valley That war strife misery can happen anywhere but all things fade and in time become silent once again |