Memoriola
Chapter One

An unknown fighter's last thoughts as they are dying on a field of battle.


I have seen many things
Too many, it would seem
There is too much for me to take
Tell me this is but a dream

Nightmare scenes and silent screams
Drowning in my fear
Senseless battles of a pointless war
Bring me to my death here

Upon this cold hard battlefield
Is where I take my leave
To flee from sorrow and my pain
No matter just how brief.

It was not all just pain and black
Once upon a fairy tale
We were once happy, proud and strong
But we were doomed to fail.

There was laughter, happy times
There were smiles and there were tears
The light has long since dwindled down
Diminished by my fears…

In the cold night dark I can hear them fighting all around me
I want to scream for them, to shout, to yell, to cry
It's their lives they're demolishing
Is this what it means to die?

Why can't we have peace for once,
Instead of constant war?
Why can't we just mend the tear,
Instead of fighting over who tore?

Can't they see what they are doing?
Surely they are not the blind?
They're killing themselves, slowly but surely
But I can see some do not mind.

Some to serve the darkness rising
They seek power and new rule
Some for magic light and pure
Facing off in a last deadly duel.

Placing our faith in two survivors
One an old man, one a boy
Why can't they see they're not in power
Being used as just a toy?

Why can't they, for just a moment
Stop the fighting and look around
Gaze at all the men and women
Lying dead upon the ground?

All for what, please tell me that
What will happen after the end
When all of us are far to damaged
To even think of an old friend?

We are fighting a war, each of our own
Within us and without
There is no purpose anymore
But do they yet begin to doubt?

When one side wins the other falls
There will still be death and pain
There will still be laughter and tears
Falling from others’ eyes like rain…

Everyone is losing something
No matter who comes out the winner
Everyone will be affected
The line of life and death is thinner.

The truth behind it all is that…
No matter who wins and no matter who fails
Life will still be a spiral staircase,
A steep one with no rails.

We each fight for our own cause
Defend it to the last
But when will we finally see
The truth which has come to pass?