Dash To Destruction

A ghostly braying haunts my dreams in nightmares neighing from the dark

A prisoner woken into screams on death’s cold journey I've embarked

The sky was dim and grey and dull an icy mist around me lulled

My captors dragged me down the track and strapped me to a horse’s back

Lashed tightly to that angry steed whose rage was like an open war

Unwilling to repent my deed my curse upon them evermore was lost beneath their laughter’s roar

I swore that they would rue the day when I became a cuckold’s prey

The courser’s wild career was freed we hurtled forth with reckless speed

Wrecked haplessly through blackness, sent to faster reach destruction’s end

We charged for many days and nights away, we charged toward the light

Of blood-red dawn, where heavens bled and birds of prey upon me fed

Struggling hard against my bonds the beast of burden hurtled on

My reeling brain was ringing sore my tethered limbs were wet with gore

And as I braced the noonday sky with sun-baked lips burned black and dry

A rasping throat that couldn't cry and one last wish: my dying sigh

The splendour of his mighty mane was marred by sweat and blood and pain

His homeland’s fields were reached with pride he snorted, reeled, he fell and died