HoGW Special: A Path to Tread
Added 2016-12-25 00:00:48 +0000 UTCHeaven knows, oh heaven knows
How hard I’ve tried
How far I’ve gone
In my struggle, in my battle
To do good, to do right
To stay on the path of righteousness
To make my maker proud.
It is difficult, very difficult
This fight against the current
It is easy, very easy
To let myself be led by wave and tide
It is tempting, oh so tempting
To sit and do nothing, to resign.
Then I’d never lose
But then again, I’d never win
Except to say I stood not alone, exempt
And then to say I failed like countless others
And was unworthy of your blessings
But there might be another way
Another strategy I can employ
To win, to emerge victorious
From the exit of the tunnel
And find my way to your feast halls
It is not your way, a deviant path
It is uncertain, unplotted, perilous
And yet perhaps my only one
For I have stranded myself
And see no other way forward
No other way to reach you
But would you accept me then
So heaven forgive me, please!
I’ll stray from the beaten paths
I’ll walk neither of the two
Those broad roads with endless trials
For both are fraught with peril
And at best an ambush at every turn
I’ll make my stand. Alone. Exempt.
I’ll carve my path
My very own path
Guided only by your presence, your will
And by my own spirit
I’ll make my own way
Through whatever troubles undaunted
So heaven guide me! I beg of you!
That I do not lose my way
That I do not lose my purpose
That I do not forget myself
That I do not lose sight of you
As I carve my path
My own unique way
To you, my mother, my sponsor, my destination
Penned by the mage Altrascius of Lorehaven, once known as the “Blessed of the Heavens” hereafter as the “Brightheart Titan” shortly before his miraculous recovery from his cursed injuries and seemingly permanent halt in the preliminary stage of the Sage tier in the year 720, Age of Warring States.
