Another Poem Appears



  • Darkness hiding every move
    The figure drifts from patch to patch
    Of darkling shade and eldritch black
    Another innocent life to snatch.
    Taking, squeezing, wrenching neck
    And then the rope, a simple stretch
    As each young lady, whore it’s true
    Is loft on high, and in the morn
    The guards do fetch
    Her down again and sigh and shake
    Their weary heads, so tired the few
    Who seek to manage
    What so many used to do
    And who’s to blame them if they say
    That suicide has marred there day
    A simpler thing to just let it go
    To seek the truth would take too much
    From those that work to keep us safe
    And so we ask of those in power
    In Finest Peltarchs darkest hour
    Who will move to fill the ranks?
    To make the streets safe once again?
    Or must we treat the docks and wharves
    As once again a place of fear
    A place the simple citizen
    Should tremble just to be too near.
    Politics is cried and called
    Around the city, whilst appalled
    At all that’s left to drift and fester
    In the darkness of our city
    Citizens I ask you, pester
    Each senator and magistrate
    We fear to move in our own streets
    The politicians are there for us
    Not for their own aggrandizement
    And so before it is too late
    It’s time to test the government
    We won the war, or so we’re told
    To win the peace we must be bold
    Since for life, the Senate rules,
    It makes no sense to follow fools.
    The women die, the gangs run riot
    For all our peace
    There is no Quiet.

    The Shadow Poet



  • _Passing through the docks on an errand, Ogam spies a copy of the poem tacked to the faded clapboards of a warehouse, and pauses to read it.

    Any who see him slip away through the shadows of the narrow streets would notice his expression is decidedly thoughtful, and perhaps troubled._