At the midpoint on my journey of life, I found myself in shade.
Lo, had it been a day of fire & hardship for this wayward soul.
Didst the moment come when all would be shown to me? When the last
curtain call would cometh to me?
Long had it been since I had beheld such peace, dreadful & everlasting
as it was. The sun seemed to glow bright yet didst not blind my eyes.
The long, everlasting expanse didst grow werry of me & I of it. A great
plain, where neither cold nor fire burdened me, nor light or soothing
wind comfort me.
My companions? Where didst they go, I can't recount. I had been to the
horrid fields of war & horror & yet al