Will to Follow

I would have gone with you
Into the depths of darkness, and beyond
To save you from the loneliness, the pain
Never knowing if it could have ended differently
To save your sons, your legacy.

You know I would
How my heart bleeds out to hear you say again
“I’m sorry.”
Can’t I steal away the cold and bitter vengeance
The liquid flame, the haunting memory?

And didn’t you already pay the werguild?
In killing rage, she tracked you down
Thiassi’s doom, you met her challenge
And she laughed in spite of rightful pain.

How is it fair, what they did to you?
How can they say it is right?
Now you, and not they, are scorned and mocked
Called traitor by those who claim love for your brother
Cast into the shadows, forgotten.

I would have gone with you
Down the spiraling roads of madness
If you’d have my company, if it’d ease your pain.
Against the tide of Ragnarok, there can be no victory,
Where blood and death and tears are everlasting legacy.