Those echoes on the cold empty air
Unobstructed by light, warmth, and life.
Author Archives: rampantswan
Unanswered
Unanswered…
Sunrise
Strange it is to have words fail youTo watch, to engage, and never pin them down. Stranger still, though all familiar,Is to recognize the word in the smallest moment. An idle glance, the spoken words already slipping awayThe last rays of light finally making it clear. On the longest night, we had chased the sunContinue reading “Sunrise”
Dauntless
A distant gleam
The Eternal Scale – Part 3
Enyo awoke to a loud thud at her door. She sprang from her bed, hands raised to unleash her powers…
The Eternal Scale – Part 2
Enyo al-Ilori felt a relief beyond any she had felt in recent years.
Ascent
Ascent…
Shattered
. . .
Moonlight
What right do I have to bask in the moonlight?That gift from the goddess of my skyWhich washes over my blackened soul. I am a creature born of night,Meant to be forgottenTasked with all the wrongs of the world. Does that make me cold? No.Yet it seems inevitable thatAll I’m seen as is the monsterContinue reading “Moonlight”
The Eternal Scale – Part 1
The appointed time arrived, and at the appointed place, a cloaked figure snaked through a narrow passageway to stand on a precipice overlooking the ocean far below. The moon hung high in the sky, providing the only light on a clear night.
Rampant Swan 