The tempest winds shrill The Mycenaean's believed this a part When the life we know ends We sail from here Where falcons fly Amid gulf and cliffs Courageous Corinth the coastal plains We are 200 of Alexander's regal to count And we are cornered from all To choice The underworld in ecstacy of rejoice We find in the Elysian poise The line We hold an agile stance midst prayers: Makers! Wake the might to drive our captors off the shelf shielding formation we buy time enduring ferocious whine bolts and arrows invading the sphere see we journey the Ionian sea through clears and mist guided by the swift messenger's wist We safeguard the commerce and pilgrims Lost and weary we were ourselves caught a trap by opportune alignment they number us in thousands driving us to this ledge The greens here are lush healthy and viable over the seabed the tall grass flails soothingly to the anemoi hush sometimes it violently twists as they shout we need to get out the elite ranks now chose to close holding while moving we back for they close every impact is felt through the solid shell like Hades unearthed embers of hail none of Macedon will bail the penchant for thrills in these resilient wills made it through worse ills Yet they are so many Phalanx lines stained in red and sorrowless blacks every move slamming a primordial giants tactic of routing so escaped the prison by the titans mere below cliffs a simple swipe of poseidon's might to swirl the halcyon waters to hurl gusts a blast splits the soil avast though he is not there someone else is here to the crude overwhelming he plays the light heart falling in line underneath harness and tunics Phobos excelling art hiding the spiritual crime he so willingly enshrines the master of fear answers to none a tricksters fright welcomes everyone we're surrounded aegis discs entwined a lifetime of envy to the limit of time so the greatest of hearts to charge the phalanx in shards A spectre's silence ignited the clouds spreading light exciting the sky from its shrouds We charge And when senses begin to fail we steel the mind to maintain sane in a glow of incandescent white we numbly speed to way thunderlines a bright seawater twinkling in the rays from the surging waves of the rising sea We stumbled the rigorously brave as tingling instants of light meandered hoplite mortals staunch as jaguars falling out of place Macedon was not founded to be surrounded and the tidal wandered shattering timebits of this realm in piercing grace A shockwave of might splintered the lines tornadoes scattered about windrunning in Zephyr's sanctuary we speared out Faultless the Stygian scythe reaps in desire for eternity were we of everlight in certainty were we on the banks Maychance still a shield from the western wind A healing breeze lays upon our wounded hands We are on our way from the ambushed stands All the here now silent Whilst winds sing from home |