Sunset on the Shiigeru

Author: Zahra Sarain

Original post: https://forums.eveonline.com/t/yc123-union-day-celebrations-short-written-works-contest/325391/

Entry for the YC123 Union Day Celebrations - Short Written Works contest.

Ragged clouds drift amid the onrushing night In the ebbing sun gossamer flaring bright Scattered blossoms in a gloomy vastness Darksome isles bearing silent witness

The bones of the planet raw, exposed, bleeding Fissures glimmering, red wounds weeping Poison and noxious flame into this ailing world Tendrils of man’s rage writ in vapors swirled

Spirits must yet wander those weeping ravines Lost amidst the exhaust of broken dreams The doomed heirs of a world divided By their legacy generations shall be guided

But death and catastrophe do not rule the expanse Alighting on crimson scars is fresh verdance From afar beams of effervescent glow wafting Defiant, shining pillars of new cities rising

As peace flows, soft and subtle through my veins I lie awake, thoughts on monumental remains In service and sacrifice, can one aspire to burn so bright As here the Caldari yet do, through the long night?