A Tale of Hope

It was a still quiet night ,children were a bed Lost in dreamland amid clouds and unicorns The elders sat around the dying embers Drinking and laughing about the days events. They too were soon overtaken by sleep Eyelids grew weary, soon snores were heard. Stars looked down from a cloudless sky And the moon glinted like a silver scythe. Silence fell over the village time stood still Cattle quietly chewed in the byre A dog awoke and sniffed the air Before yawning ,licking lips and going back to sleep Shadows strangely and silently moved Pouring like treacle over the village wall From out of the darkness of the forest Fiendish folk slithered in With thought malicious and evil intent. Within a heartbeat the village was taken Elders groggily thrown in jail Children screamed and dogs growled Too late they were taken unawares. The dark lord laughed to see His men take over this easily. His control was total no resistance offered So he thought ill marry the mayors daughter She was dragged screaming to the meeting place Which was also used for matrimonial joining The friar was called and brought forth to preside The fiendish lord now had his bride. The people wept and moaned and groaned Where is there a hero to deliver us? Then a stranger appeared from whence he came No one saw and no one really knows With his bow and warriors bold Fought with the fiendish one and won the day The children cheered and threw rotten fruit At the dark one as he was placed in stocks He lost his leather boots and stood in his socks His men they fled as the day was lost Chased by the children into the wild Never to be seen in this strath again.