Freya's Ragnarok

 by Ember Cooke

burned field (Audio file of Ember singing this)

For I have seen the old man cry
The thunder floods his darkened eye
For he has watched his bright son die
  The heir to Asgard's legacy betrayed
 
And I have seen the future bleed
That sacred self-renewing seed
What mortal wound from simple weed
  The fate a thousand vows could not evade
 
For I have seen a mother's pain
Who knew her brightest must be slain
For man to grace the land again
  After the gods and giants tear it down
 
And I have heard the queen confess
To lie-smith in his haggard dress
The oversight with such finesse
  That he, but for his lover's faith, would drown
 
For I have seen my brother-lord
In love give up his flaming sword
To be the god the World adored
  For Now must be the only time he knows
 
And I will see that weapon's might
As flame and Fire's hand unite
To kill my sister-heart's delight
  Yet Fire in turn is smothered as he goes
 
For I once knew my lover lost
For wisdom mad the line he crossed
Who knew the price and paid the cost
  To see beyond the walls of will and wyrd
 
And I must find my love once more
Among the fallen dead before
The Shifter starts the final war
  Or I will face alone the fate I feared
 
This World you raise for sacrifice
A gamble on your faithless dice
That you may best the fire and ice
  To make a better world from ash and bone
 
This World that glows with sacred life
My people's kings would take to wife
This World you bend beneath your strife
  This World you break is not a World you own
 
But I my people's peace would lead
To fickle fate our rights concede
That we would slow Her deathly bleed
   Forstalling the inevitable end
 
For though we balance life and land
For gods and men and nature's hand
Their will to war we had not planned
   And so our will to theirs we're forced to blend
 
So now I hold back blinding tears
Of gold and amber through the years
And all I've lost has fed my fears
  That all we gained will only feed the flame
 
And now I fight to keep the Green
From shadows only barely seen
Our last and unrelenting Queen
  The Vanadis all Midgard to reclaim!