Few Words with a Bard By Riitu gro-Hiik

• Posted by Capricorn June 3, 2016 - 1,335 views

  

  I came upon a gated hold,

  
   
   townfolk running white with fear.

  
  
  For tales that dragons had returned,

  
  
  were all the tales you'd hear.

  
  
  I talked my way into the town,

  
  
  and walked towards a well.

  
   
   'Twas then I spied, a fair young lass,

  
  
  who had some fruits for sale.

  
  
  We talked a while, 'bout this and that,

  
  
  and how she'd gotten unwanted calls.

  
  
  She said her little daughter,

  
  
  was all she cared for in these walls.

  
  
  She didn't want a husband,

  
   
   she only wanted to raise her kin.

  
  
  But that bard, she said, with his boasts and songs,

  
  
  was the worst of all the men.

   
   At this I gained a notion,

  
  
  to profit from this scene.

  
  
  She didn't long, for husband or man,

  
  
  but I know no man who's green!

  
  
  With haste, I quickened towards the inn,

  
  
  and sauntered towards the bard.

  
  
  For ladies honor, a brawl we'd wage,

  
  
  a fight I knew 'twould not be hard.

  
  
  I bested him in footwork,

  
  
  and excelled with fists of steel.

  
  
  'Twas not long, before the bard,

  
  
  lay beneath my booted heel.

  
  
  I went with gladness, back to the lass,

  
  
  she said, "I'll repay you if I can!"

  
  
  But to my dismay, she gave only coin,

  
  
  for unfortunately I'm half-man.