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Einherjar

Silent at first without a sound in the air But my breathing and tightening hand In solitude and fear I wait and I stare Into stillness around where I stand An inevitable darkness blacker than night Now the flame glow ahead in my trance Moving quietly a beacon of glimmering light Gracefully gliding with Persephone’s dance  The blaze is reflected on the steel I hold On what trust I have brought at my side Unsheathed from the depths and abyss of my soul And prepared for the oncoming fight Thunderous hooves stampeding with flare The earth trembles as I wait on the storm In this darkness I knelt once alone in prayer Yet this battlefield is still being born The flame splits and becomes Demeter’s two And then four carried side by side Closer and closer unceasingly closer By torchlight these dark Horsemen ride Behold the undying unwavering force Triumphant with destruction in sight Steady undaunted upon an ungallant course And prepared for the oncoming fight I will not die this night or coming day With such dread in my shivering mind The wounds will heal from this cursed fray As the agony retreats that I find Death doesn’t surrender to this man with a blade And life is not taken with sword As Odin has given his eye in a trade Let the Valkyries come and the ravens explore May Morrigan flap her wings for this host The land of shadows and what deeds I have done May she remind me again of my own reproach I have buried my forgotten son.

Copyright © July 2000 Jason S. Moore

Additional Notes:
This poem has a definite mythological backbone using the Greek myths as well as Celtic and Norse pantheon. The story of this poem deals really with the death of the great Celtic hero Cuchullain but also the fact that myths parallel one another and are universal to everyone.


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