A Forever Knight soliloquy

By Stephni Warner

October 13, 2000

To cross or not to cross:

That is the question.

Whether 'tis nobler for the soul to suffer

The pangs and hunger of needs and wants

Or to turn and fight against

Societies push for sameness.

And for what? To dream: to lust;

Perhaps more; and, by sleep to say, YES

The penetrating teeth

the thousand aged memories

That each is heir to, 'tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep;

For in that sleep of undeath what now may come

When we have moved beyond the mortal view

Must give us pause. A time to reflect.

On what is past, and what is to come.

To view the history that is present

To know others, more than yourself be known.

The pangs of Hunger, the heights of the Hunt

The insolence of mortals, the spurns

That Elders and Ancient place,

'Pon newborns into their race.

To taste the nectar with candles and lace,

Of others dread of the Masters of Death,

The unknown pleasures of each nights hunt,

Where no traveler returns untouched by fate.

To stay at this safety of same,

to bear the ills we have,

Or to fly to one whom we know not of.

Will conscience make cowards of us all;

Or bring us to a resolution

To be stopped o'er the pale cast of thought

And stay in safety's confine and comfort

Or turn to the dark its currents turn awry,

With yourself into this passion. Soft you now!

Oh lusted one! The heat in my 'horizons

Be all my sins remembered.

Stephni / Danu40k