Armoured Goodbye

He is wearing armour

Whispering romance languages

Sands stop seething through time’s vial, all is languid

Mo chara, mo chroí, amor

Tomorrow, ámararch, I march without sorrow 

You will die, she protests, Mairbh

I go the way of all flesh and all armadas

In the ground and beneath the sea

They trade claddaghs

He goeth as goeth a glider

Mailshirt soft as ider

Blade sharp as cider

Grailthirst made our king a miser

The crone from her sibyl cave

Sibling to carrion, drinker of graves

Roaming endless fresh battlefields

Ending suffering with her misericord

Out blood geysers, death quick easeful

Burnt granaries, ahead winter bleak

Mailed glove strokes snow cheek

Heart’s insider

Another heart inside her

Ahorse strong wind pulls down his visor

Like bullies jersey pulling during fights

Hate in hearts of neither

Either might find it

Better man emerges survivor

Palm my pendant 

Locket skin indented

Always hot to touch

Imbued lover’s intention

Smooth as unmentionable

The moving landscape, blending seasons, Jove’s fierce archery 

Golden furnished his arch finery, everything art

Judas the venerable, for what greater act of forgiveness follows his treachery.

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