Knight Has Fallen

Knight Has Fallen

There is no light, no warmth

only darkness and cold

as he gropes along passion's pathways

crammed with damsels innocent and bold.

Silence is his armored suit

that deflects the arrows from his heart

but the mace of her allure

batters it apart.

.

Her shadows hide her faithless heart.

Her beauty veils her dishonesty.

He sees not, her glaring pride

and does not grasp her treachery.

Though he hungers for her arms

they will, but twist his desperate dreams

and turn the thumbscrews on his lust

until he’s pressured to extremes.

Yet, he begins to understand:

A righteous man cannot remain

encased in armor and skulk the land

crestfallen, crawling from his pain.

Sometimes a knight’s heroic

pursues his quest until the end.

Sometimes a knight surrenders

unto a Lady’s lure he bends.

He is her knight in shining moonlight.

But now, he entreats the starless sky

to grant his dismal petition….

The courage to say good-bye.