RedImageryRIP

The night was clear as quartz, as most nights were at this time of year, yet there was an uncertain edge to it. As if some awful, godforsaken monster awaited its prey in every dark corner of the castle. King Vahrees paced the corridors endlessly, only pausing to listen to his Queens constant screams from beyond the oak doors. Hell, he thought to himself, when will this torture end?     The Queen had been in labour for what seemed to the king like days. He always thought the woman was good at milking things...But this was a matter of life and death. Vahrees shivered as he halted once again, listening hard to try and decipher anything but V

I've known you for such a time yet, we have rarely spoken, it seemed like such a crime because, we were never so open I could never tell you how I truly felt life seemed like one big game, so I just played the cards that I was dealt but they never let me speak your name I remember when you signed that paper, when you gave your life to them your family thought it was all a bit of a caper, but you rose above the rest, and glistened like a gem You became the best of the best trained my hardened men, not a name, but a number upon your vest oh, if only we'd have known then You were to be sent to war so far away... we all wander