King's Ward

Come back with your shield or on it
Bleed from outside or from in
The only faith I’ve ever known
Is the faith I’ve kept within

I have no sense of patience
Nor a sense of fate’s surprise
The only tale I want to hear
Is the tale of my demise

Hallucinations in the place
Of what had passed before the eyes
The only place I call my own
Is the ashes from which I rise

Now all I ask for is the last word
Hail, hail the King’s Ward
All I ask is to be cast out
& left to sleep through an endless war