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[[Category:Logs]]'''[ 12] Cirth: In what season are you now? ...... (Poetry)'''<BR>
'''Tue Jan 6 09:26:40 1998'''<BR>
'''To: all'''<BR><BR>
Paved with leaves they were the ancient paths I walked alone,<BR>
spoken to by evening winds and dying trees and withered stone.<BR>
Carefree, singing she approached while I whispered to my ghosts.<BR>
Drowning sun and melting sky while her laughter chased away my hosts.<BR>
Passing by she ruffled me and left an impish grin.<BR>
Ill-humoured I informed that indolence is a deadly sin.<BR>
Merrily she shouted back that she would take her chances,<BR>
her hair a nest of curls, copper like the last leaves on the branches.<BR><BR>
There was just the moon to warm me as I stumbled in the snow.<BR>
Numb I called a fire down and huddled in my cloaks, not knowing where to go.<BR>
The scent of sandalwood and she was there and roasted me a steak.<BR>
Double checked her padded collars lock she did, altough I was much too weak.<BR>
"Tell me a story" then she asked in a gloomy way, less cheerful than before<BR>
and I told of mercenary mages, of elder gods and Ebon wars and more.<BR>
She told solemnly to me about a woman in a tree and of life and change and death<BR>
and I was left to contemplate in sole companionship of my ghostly cloud of breath.<BR>
I mused about the way she'd warned me of her growling hat, that it would pick a fight,<BR>
her hair a nest of curls, black like the empty starless sky on a winter night.<BR><BR>
Roaddust on my robes again. Slow my pace, inhale the morning breeze.<BR>
I never noticed them before, such miracles as these;<BR>
blooming flowers beside my path, the texture on a tree,<BR>
the murmur of a brook, the fragrance of the sea.<BR>
I take my rest here on this stone, watch the birds and hear their song.<BR>
My journey's ending here. I know she'll be here soon, that it won't be long.<BR>
"In what season are you now?", I whisper although I've seen her in a sight,<BR>
her hair a nest of curls, so fair it's almost white.<BR>
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