3. The Only Way

I lost my lands, I'd broken doom to roam,
Extend your hands: all there was my home.
But I have no reason to retain
My feelings. And I'd never back again.

Oh, ancient world of daemons and rage,
There will be light, and it's my leading pledge.
I'm so bored of lords and their strife -
I want to live and feel another life.

The only way
To end this play
To stop this foolish war
I want to find:
The source of mind
To claim for evermore.

The Shadows seize my reason every step,
My mind has discontinuous rising gap.
And where to go, and where to find my state?
I hate you, Shadows, hate you, feel my hate!

Reality is so far and lost
I paid for freedom my ruinous cost.
No words, no faces. Forgive.
And no-one is alive.
My ravings now my only dreams.

Dark Shadows gone throw my half-crazy mind,
And I became too heavy and too blind,
Where is the way, where is a perfect day?
Where is a place to live, a place to stay?

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ps: В первоначальном замысле - посвящается бегству Дворкина из Дворов Хаоса. Возможно, продолжение следует. (Если кто не знаком с замечательными амберскими романами Роджера Желязны - советую.)