The Shadowed Road

If I could choose my way

I’d never leave this place

This forest dreams in greens and golds

I’ll never see again

But I hear the quiet call

A portent drifting dark and cold

For the road ahead is shadowed

And there ruin waits untold

But I will not turn away

I roam this bloodstained road

Through the mountain paths to the gates of bone

I swear by the grey boundless sea

One day I will return

But my home is corrupted

and all gods to fall

The forest will burn

So I’ll leave on the path I must take

Crushing fate, I’ll never forget

That hope is as dim as ghosts

In the dens of their hosts

I'll hold to it

Beneath this crumbling world I saw

A truth as dark as a thousand unseen winters

Our doom was written in our souls

But I will claim it as my own

I once dreamed of a place

Where all things of old stories dwell

I longed for it, now I see

That where there walk dreams

Nightmares linger as well

This is my road, through wandering shades

For the promise I made

Through hidden vales

All the shapes that haunt us

I will contend

The road has burned my world away

Did I think to come this far unchanged?

But I feel a sense of clarity

I’ve never known before

That with death so close behind me

I can see the bitter dawn

Into the plains of ash

I’ll leave the world that was behind

Though I walk into the dark

I walk at last with open eyes

Behold my empire

The ruinscape

The broken bonds that held us

I wonder how I came this far

Through terrors dread

The road won't destroy me

I'll follow where it leads

The truth is ever near

Look into the dark

If you will look into the dark

Ever will I walk upon this shadowed road

This ravaged path where phantoms roam

For if all things must end

I'd walk among the ashes of the dawning shadowed world