by "Ankhsi" Laural Blayde ELLANDJA@aol.com
Some selected poetry written after they were freed by Goliath's Clan and Xanatos...
Disclaimer:
If you already didn't know, the Gargoyles do not belong to me at all. Neither does David Xanatos,Goliath, or Oberon.... I wish I owned Avalon, but I don't own that nice piece of realistate either. I have no money, so if Buena Vista or Disney sues me they'll probably only get my underwear. I hope you enjoyed my blast from the Last Desert Clan. They'll be some Fan-fic about them a little later this month.... End of February, beginning of March- hopefully.
Long before the count of human years we thrived
Before the first steps of man, we lived and died
E're to live without the sun
The light in our hearts made our clan one.
-Amenerat's last words before the spell is cast
I call Esthera, Star bright one.
I call Gebenthryst, Harp of the earth.
I call Amenerat and her mother Anabanarat,
The Hidden city, and the Protected city ,
I call Khuneb, the Maker
I call my lord Sethotep,
The God of the Desert is well pleased,
I call the others....
The Others!
-The Call of Wepawawan
Doomed we are to stand in silence
Before the coffin of long dead king
Without stars or air
....Nor anything
Stone they have made us
As stone we shall stand
Until our kind come to free us
From the human spell's hand.
-Esthera's Rhyme
Long have I waited
Long still to wait
Memory circles
In a long winding gate
Forever to come
Forever to go
I stand in dust
Like cool grey snow
Snow I saw once
Snow in the north
In the land of barbarians
Who n'er saw Corinth
I went many places
I went many times
Traveling 'round the world
To Oberon's chimes
Oberon the Fairy king
Oberon my second lord
Sethotep promised servitude
And Pharoah took his ward
Pharoah never saw Oberon
Pharoah never saw Avalon
Sethotep condemed us all to sleep
Because of the price they agreed upon
The Price of Peace was eternal slumber
The Price until our kind came to free us
The Ward is buried on Pharoah's breast
Under strips of linen and boards of lumber
I would rip the corpse's heart out
I think that would do no good
But to make me feel avenged
That act surely would
I have had enough of lying kings
I have had enough of sleep
It is now time to awaken
I feel my blood creep
My kinsman are now close at hand
My kind come to break the spell
To feel the air upon my skin
Now that would do me well.
- Ankhsi's lament
Stone,
We are as stone
Older than grave, Older than ice
We are as ice
Ice is a shell upon spring, Ice is the shell of the winter
Winter .
-Khuneb explains the Gargoyles sleeping habits to a barbarian ,in poetry
The earth sleeps in the desert
As do I now, As do I
The desert sleeps forever
As do I now, As do I
Lament not, love
As do I now, As do I
For you shall never die, love
As do I now, As do I
You'll not go to sleep beneath the dunes
As do I now, As do I
To wake n'er again beneath the moon
As do I now, As do I
- Gebenthryst's last words to the Princess Nefere
Dark is like a window
Upon a silent world
Time is but a slate
To see the plan unfurled
To sleep is not too bad a thing
For we shall see what the future will bring.
- Anabanarat's thoughts
I have failed my beloved mate
Anabanarat and her theory of the slate
Though I have tried to understand
I wish to disobey the royal command
To sleep the twenty of us go
To ensure peace, the humans say so
I hear the rest of the clan's screams in my mind
The humans have lied another time.
- Sethotep's last regret