Favor’s Elegy

By: ???

The wind has never carried loyalty
Fate’s verdict impartial to royalty
Though many try to stack destiny’s deck
They will find all outcomes lead them to wreck
Unlike you, death can’t lose the waiting game
Doom grins in skulls of jovial green flame
Worship or wither in ancient wastelands
Mangled by fangs of abyssal war bands
Plague and famine test a soul’s true resolve
Succumb to decay or slay and absolve
Pride, deadly bane of thieves in the night
Yet kings must fear both modesty and smite
Denounce the deserting wind of the dunes
The true name renounced by words but not runes
Unravel chains of infested grape vines
Hope rediscovered in withered red wines

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"If I wrote six of the poems it begs the question, who wrote the seventh? Well, I’ll let you have the satisfaction of figuring that out. I’ll leave this hint to guide you towards the answer: compare the meter of the poems. Wizards have always written in trochaic octameter. It sets us apart from the gypsies trying to sell you a potion that gives you the ability to see new colors. Obviously, they are frauds; just to clarify, I have created potions that give the ability to witness new colors. Royalty have always written in iambic pentameter; well, do you know who else just so happens to write in iambic pentameter? Dragons. Yea, the nobility is pretty egotistical to separate themselves from the common-folk by comparing their prose to that of dragons (there is nothing wrong with being prideful; there is something wrong with being prideful when you are undeserving)." - Curiosity