An Ignoble Death Poem by abu tarek md tahsin

Amongst those blue mountain
Covered in frost
Is a story to be told
A thousand years strong

How mighty men fought
A battle so grave
That the devil himself shook
In fear and shame


How men so strong
Men so fearless
Fought for weeks
At a stretch


They fought and plundered
Village after village
Until
The gods turned away
And fate was all
That was left
For them to take away

How those days did go
And as night did arrive
Thunder and lightening
Fell from the skies

In terrifying cries!

And what arose
From that ground
Was drenched in blood
For a while


The battles they fought
The crimes they committed
In greed and in rage
Finally came to an end


The blood thirsty king
And his men
Died an ignoble death

People say
A disease
Was spread amongst them

And they could neither sit
Nor could they stand
And blood poured from their eyes
As their throats became dry

No amount of medicine
No amount of gold ever could
Bring them back
From that deathly disease

People say
They were cursed
And hell waited
To take them back