Take My Pity With You

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I feel your presence, when the grass shakes a shiver

That’s when everyone hides and everyone covers

You paint sinister lines over clouds of silver

Stab your malice—your hatred, not backs of others

 

Never ready for war, never steady in youth

You shift back and forth from deceit to truth

Losing your stand, a sight not to ignore

Lay down your grief, and don’t lie on your sword

 

When you leave so soon, take my pity with you

Leave your knife beside, or you’ll take your own life

I know a downtrodden face when I see red eyes

So close them tightly now, and turn to the skies

 

For yet a dragon will die if it trades its water

For a handful of gold, or a bloody slaughter

Keep your gold, dragon, one day you’ll see

Your heart is barer than a cave empty

 

Keep crimson in veins; take my pity with you

Leave your knife in its sheath, or I’ll lose my sleep

Though it may be extreme, hope’s lie is true

Swallow your chances; no harm will keep

 

Make your presence, dear, and hold your head high

Conquer your enemy, that enemy’s you

Erase the ominous sunset over the sky

Buy a beam of the moon, soar through the blue

 

When you leave so soon, take my courage with you

Chase your monster away; no one loves a two face

The mist from your eyes turn from snow to rain

Let them fall from your face, cascading from skies

 

What caused a loss? Were the battle lines blurry?

Were you just another comrade lost in the fury?

Not to me, dragon, so fly on my friend

Before stolen time swallows your end!

 

Feel warmth from the sun, and as it sinks

It will reflect your scales and bathe bloody ink

Blazes now shrivel; rashness is vain

As starlight upholds, keep the blood in your veins

 

When you leave so soon, take my pity with you

Leave your knife beside, and find a new life

Close your eyes, and the dead man’s lies

When you leave so soon, take my pity with you

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