The Nomad
Before Sunrise
I shall be off to my doom
One nation’s ruins
My empire consumes
I will march, I will step
Left foot, right foot
In continuous reps
I shall slaughter or be slaughtered
These morbid thoughts
Allow me not to falter
The evening before my departure
Flashbacks of the famine I once brought you
I look upon the face of the infant one
The gods have blessed this father with
I come to hold
The wife I no longer bother to kiss
March I shall
For the empire that has nourished me
From infant to child, child to man
From man, to battlefield god
Your favoritism is what I demand
This morning has come,
This morning has past
In the gods I trust
In this steel, my treasure at hand
To kill, to lust,
No separation of us
No signs of your favor
No shift in my behavior
Grave I may be
The opposition of life often waves at me
As your loyal subject
I write to you
My lord
Your newly speared nomad
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