Endar Poems:
The Riddle
The Second Riddle
The Salmon
The Shadow’s Deep
song of the journey’s end
The Riddle
I am the day and the night
The dark and the light
The virgin queen
Perverse and obscene
Real but a dream
I am the pale moon shining down
Into your soul as you drown
With secrets you can never know
Whispered, inaudible
Quick, merciful and cold
I am the shade under the tree
As you rest your head to sleep
Moving with the breeze to hide
Cowardly leaving you behind
To be burnt and fried
I am empty yet I have all
Beautiful, divine, terrible
A vision incomplete
I cannot be seen
Unless you truly believe
I am gold and dust
Pure, worthless, unloved
Without your love
I won’t ask for anything
Other than everything
Until you have nothing
I hold your birth and life
I pick when you will die
I stand outside of time
Who am I?
The Second Riddle
I am the malcontent
Here I am
Tired, spent
Worthless, null
Void and dull
Languishing, infertile soul
A cipher filled
Dark matter
Meaningless and chilled
Killing, killed
By your laughter
But not your apathy
When you refuse to see me
I will take your soul
Spit it out whole
Tear away your face
When you run
From the blackness
From the pain
From your own shame
Pitched, reeling
No ground
No ceiling
Not even the sky
Nowhere to hide
Just empty space
I am coming for you
I wait in the shadows
Lurking on the ledge
I live in these surfaces
Of blades that cut
Waiting to slit you up
Into your dreams
I will enter unseen
Take out all the light
Until you cannot believe
In anything
Not even me
Who could I be?
The Salmon
Born at the beginning of time
After the tree of life formed
Below water dripped and poured
Forming a well where hazel acorns fell
A salmon ate those seeds until he knew
Everything that’s good and true
All the evil and vile strife
Forged from the infinity of life
Thus, he awaits in soft sunlight
By the blackened pool of night
In balmy days with sky blue
When storms strike, it is here he stays for you
Wading within the well in water still
Almost like he’s pining for
A lover he once adored
Longing to see your face before he died
He knows your name and what you seek
He knows the path is long and bleak
He knows the stars guide you at night
He knows you are good, just and right
He knows that some will block your way
He knows some will force you to slay
He knows you are the one to free
The world from pain, death, and disease
So now you have come, simple one
He would shout out in high joy
But for the saddest of news
You must dine on freshly caught fish tonight
By the flicker and flames of soft firelight
By this blackened pool and well
His trap of infernal hell
You must eat his delicate flesh
To finally receive your wish
The Shadow’s Deep
softly, soft......follow me to the shadows deep ..........lost blowhere mermaids pass by in drunken sleep ..wind to my home.as eels electrify each naked eye ..................while the waves above drift low then high .......blow.......swim with me sweet, beloved dear .............lost.to music the harpies play for us here ...........i..one.sailors to catch my glimpse would die ..................let us float 'til on the reef we lie.... ..................lift your head, love, lift your heart to i..............let the dark, vivid colors blend apart ....me here to me.do not fear this water clear ..........see.....do not fear should we disappear.... ..................what will be love with soft words gone ...............to.what without your song does life become ....the un, un....to sink, to sing as we start again .........known seaare you near my only friend? ..................allow me to be sad, to bitterly cry waves.............allow this water to blur my eyes ......drift.......are you near....are you here..... ...........higher.I swear I see your pitch black hair.... low sweet wind go bright summer sun ......to..........will I too be black when you are done them all..........when the night slowly awakes ..................will it bestow sweet heaven's face call..............the sea beneath my body flows blessed...........so every thought within me goes ...........life i.lost to that silence, dull to pain ..................one can but feel the heavy weight there.............the sand is wet, lax and plush ..................sticking to my fingers like velvet gloves here..............sharpness inside these lungs do sear ...my in..........so much water one has no tears ......in..........crying needs such vital breath ..................this for that love think not of me less .............side.of you my last view will surely see ..................to thee these dying words shall be... come..............I had only thought to stay alone .comenow comenow..now all places pale beside your own ..come come i i i.I can't bear to know you're gone ..................will you come here....will you come?
song of the journey’s end
old and new, waiting for you
over the hills and under the sun
waiting for you as life has just begun
waiting for you as long as can be
waiting for you and waiting for me
here again we go together my friend
through these woods deep as sorrow
here again we travel away into every day
through mountains and glens unto tomorrow
gilding and golden, sapling in green
dusty and dark, white into stark
the colors abound throughout our journey
spreading into our hearts at what has been seen
making us age at wisdom’s stages
here we shall see all of life’s majesty
in the oceans and ponds and what is beyond
footsteps echoing onto hard ground
voices fading out until they have no sound
finally we arrive where we started before
facing each other the same yet we’ve changed
one of us lives, one of us cries
the other lies down in the cold ground and dies