GALILEE MY HOME
Thy red rock walls in full array
Warm my frame by its display
---Signaling I’m home.
Leaning out o’er our skyship’s bow
Extending ‘yond what would allow
I see your towers closer now.
---Excited that I’m home.
Our captain barks out his command
The crew move swift, I lend a hand
To take the ship down near the sand
---Nearing to my home.
Descending through a turbid cloud
We then brake free from its thick shroud
In glee I raise my voice aloud
---"Galilee, I’m home!"
Galilee’s gates are open wide.
Though her walls are cracked and dried
Her crimson flag flies high with pride
---Welcoming me home.
The busy street and sand worn road
Once served as homes where I abode
My path has changed, so has my code.
---Is this still my home?
But, the people frank, an avowed race
They greet us now with warm embrace
Upon each cheek a kiss they place
---Greetings from my home.
Among the people I walk the street
Through Galilee I meet and greet
To hide my mirth is quite the feat.
---Elated that I’m home.
Old friends come out from shady lairs
They lure me with their shiny wares
To come, return, lose all my cares
---Steal away my home.
I’m sitting now in Kihnsed’s tow’r
Contemplating the midnight hour
Looking over the desert’s pow’r
---Drawing me back home.
Can I escape these walls I see
Of stone and sand ’round my city
Surrounding this, my Galilee?
---Abandoning my home?
A song upon the wind I hear
A distant cry, its drawing near
Her voice—-a spell; her words are clear,
---"Tadje, come back home."
Remember I, where my quest stands.
It beckons me to leave the sands
And place I must in Asha’s hands
---The mem’ry of my home.
I turn and wave goodbye, adieu
Heading back towards Chaaya’s crew
Return again, my vow renew
---Leaving now my home.
But just before I leave I kneel
In honor there near Chaaya’s keel
And with my hand the sand I feel
---A token from my home.
Aboard the ship we rise up high
Towards the deep blue azure sky
From o’er the rail aloud I cry,
---"Galilee my home!"
This poem I wrote awhile back with my gaming group. We were playing in a fantasy setting where we soared around in a skyship called Chaaya's Quest. My character was a wizard from a desert city called Galilee. His mentor, Kihnsed, lived in Galilee too in a typical wizard's tower.
I wanted to post this one as I was behind a week working on my New Year's poem.
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