Where Shadows Lurk -

Toward defiled lands

We gaze before the ravine

Carved by falling waters

Set ablaze by the deceiver

Once flowing with hope

Now frozen with grief

The barren mire strays

Embraced by fallen trees

Seeking the hidden gates

Obscured by a blackened cloak

Sweeping through mountainous shadows

We move ever onward

Through the brush and over veiled roads

To an unshown city of stone

My heart longing for deep seas

By wood and sinew I forge songs of thee

Before deep sullen dales

Pierced by fading green

Revealed a fearsome path

Shrouded by undergrowth

Light strangled by darkness

Through cavernous depths

Deceived by echoes foray

Glaring down into cold unknown

Over the mountains and through the gates

To an unshown city of stone

Towards a place where far light glimmers

Where one will be free from thralldom whispers

Gazing upon the great walls of stone

Its towers reach far beyond the sky

Many fair pathways lay across the plain

At last we have reached our home

None may be free to enter our unknown halls

For shadows lurk beyond our great walls