Elegy For A Knight Poem by HEG George

Rise up, Scion of La Mancha.

Destiny orbited all that you were
and encompassed all that you possessed.

Windmills stood ten-fold to the fore
when you readied your lance
and saddled your barn nag.

Its whipped hide and ungulated
hoofs cantering towards betrayal
and unfinished vows.

Your voice was virtuous in timbre
against the manifest threat of cruel
malfeasance that roamed the lands
of bogus hills and rampant mountains
charging towards the crest of your
enlightened honour.

Now, these burning candles about
your casket hold the truth
of your quests until, like you,
they peter out and die.

And then, recitations of your Quixotic
trials shall be cleaved from history.
Such is the eye of irony that wrests
away your conquests.

So, rise up Scion of La Mancha and challenge
the lies. Ride abroad with purpose once more.
Or lay where you rest and let time become
a biased judge to your well laid intentions.