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A Weapon So Keen

April 20, 2019
By prosecutie1024 BRONZE, New York City, New York
prosecutie1024 BRONZE, New York City, New York
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Favorite Quote:
She wasn't looking for a knight. She was looking for a sword. -Atticus


She was the blade and the blade was her


She was the arrow singing, the lioness’s purr


And the shamshir was singing a song of the ones


The ones from long ago, their escapades and deeds done


The broadsword’s edge was lit on fire


Silhouetted against a burning tower’s spire


They were her weapons, weapons so keen.


~

She was the light and the night


She was the irrevocable fight


She was the requiem of the curved rudus


The threnody of the talwar’s lust


The sweat of the saber dripped


Onto parched battlefields, dust, skeletons that sipped


All they could from the blade


That cut down heroes of old, that made them fade


They were her weapons, weapons so keen

~


She was the moon’s lonesome companion fellow


She was the echo in the cavern that bids hello


And the dirk spun in hand


Used to cut through traveling merry bands


The dirk, it sang a mournful dirge


The rapier, now, it was rapacious


It screamed into the mistrals with its cry of a scourge


The slender katana was vivacious


In its rhapsody of the bloody rivers spilled


Didn’t mean a thing


They were her weapons, her weapons so keen

~


She was a mother’s weary sigh


She had the look of a plunging raptor in her onyx eyes


Her hanzo hefted high


Her cutlass raised in a warrior’s salute towards the sky


A salute of blood spilled, and opponents worthy


A salute of drinking in dim taverns after the loss of a brother-in-arms, a sister-in-arms


A salute to a carotid artery punctured on the tip of a newly polished blade


A salute to the winning of nations, thrones, and the loss of flesh and bone


All because of her weapons. Her weapons so keen.


The author's comments:

Inspired by the quote in my bio haha


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