The Bards, their Worlds and their Words

Recollect thoughts in tranquility, the bard said -

While I attempted the act, I was taken to a new world

A chaotic grassland set beside a peaceful wasteland

Million words have been used to describe this new world -

This world, a world of both hope and despair.

Unheard melodies are sweeter, another poet cried -

I listened to those melodies and I learned real music

The sweet sounds made my eardrums shatter,

While the noisy sounds kept my heart calm -

This music magic, a magic of both illusion and reality.

A heap of broken images, shrieked a lunatic -

I began collecting the shattered pieces of the mirror

This mirror held not just my reflections but my memories

Million pieces I gathered and tried repairing them -

This new mirror, a mirror of both honesty and deception.

I loved nature more, sang a lover -

My feet took me on adventures which I had never dreamt of

The rivers and the country sides, the birches and the village wine,

What lusty life of peace, and what intoxicating taste of simpleness -

This space, a space of both freedom and captivity.