Catafraktos - Byzantine Knight
Anywhere under the sky, will be buried, a man,
ringing the bells to her Holiness, convent nuns
it would be an act of impiety, enslaved to live,
in a world of memories, to recall and strive..
Heavenly echo of a prelude Maria's smile benign,
his past of bitter shadows - dim hope to decline
in a cadaverous of dusk, slow the Nyx will reign
betrothal feast died in him, despite his deign.
He never dies; absurd the darkened call of winds
to stream a flow of relentlessness his life's bids
bestow, drops of useless red, his flow lingers,
by sword men only lived, and wounds' stingers.
Billeting Area on the Wall, Queen-Omnipotence
as Barbaric hordes attack her sacred Omniscience,
a Catafraktos, noblest of fighters, in manly duty,
offering his sword, to defend her solemnized beauty.
Strengthened will, warrior's to hammer actions
in a quarry of errands hard, lethal attractions
to conquer his deposit dry, of doom acceptance
or laugh in a world of Charon bets, paid in advance..
Soldier of Royal Highness, frames his darkness,
as Nyx descends, owls croak to, besiegers' madness
a man to comprehend, his Crimson shed to pallor
to live by honor, never withdraw, but die in valor.
poem by Giorgio Veneto
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