for the ones
who died fighting

the tales
the rain
the glory
the pain
the fires
the blood
the stink
the mud

the lost
the dead
the fallen
the forgotten
the tears
the fears
the broken
unspoken

to crawl
to cry
to fall
to die
rotten
in a gutter
his sacrifice
his life



the screaming
the terror
your thrills
your kills
the war
the monster
it hides
inside

my pain
my rage
my bitterness
my cage
here it is
in my gut
your jealousy
fatal cut

the bullshit
the backstabbin
the night
the fight
you've forgotten
you've failed
my coffin
your nail



you'll see
your heart
your hate
too late
this black
this poison
this bile
wyrm's guile

my claws
my words
broken laws
your sword
the dragon
my mistrust
my friends
in the dust

my father
my mother
my brothers
in the cold
my caern
my sept
this debt
i owe



for the dead
the heroes
the past
my woes
and the heat
the cause
always justifies
the loss

Bastian St. Clair (Sebastian J. Lloyd)
Sun-on-Water (Burning Claws of the Sun Dancing on Water)
Silver Fang Galliard
Winter, 2001

Bastian St. Clair

playboy

wastrel

prodigal

poet

junkie

party

animal

alpha

antihero

villain

scum

knight

stoner

loser

rejected

lost

purebred

pure blood

tainted heart

tainted soul

courageous

coward

apathy

empathy

sword

pen

stone

fire

disrespectful

irreverent

irrelevant

outsider

runaway

castaway

disowned

unbroken

careless

wasteful

laughing

brokenhearted

sinner

scoundrel

silver

fang