Along the faint and overgrown road
Beneath the trees grown huge
There is tombstone, weathered and slanted
Marking a forgotten grave
The inscription is illegible
The tombstone is almost blank
Overgrown with moss and vines
Beneath the tombstone, the one buried there
Long ago, when the trees were yet young
His bones have long crumbled to dust
Nothing to tie him to the world anymore
Nothing to keep him here
Just the tombstone, enduring, alone
A storm grows up, the ancient trees shake
Wind howls in the trees, the sky grows dark
Then crack, lightning spears down from the clouds
Splitting the tombstone in two
From it rises a white, silver mist
A ghost screeches in joy, finally free
The storm passes, all is as before
Save the shattered and broken tombstone
And the spirit once imprisoned there
Is now gone, forever free
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Sapphire Dragoness of ALSB
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