The lonely child was sitting with his dad,
in a cold and lonely night.
‘Can you read me a tale?’ the son asked,
‘Certainly, my dear son’, the father replied…

‘Once upon a time, a great king existed…
and his realm, bigger than any other was.
He was happy, and his people were too.
But… around his life… many beings existed.

‘But worry did not he.
He was safe, he was happy, and everything was fine.
Until… the evil broke. And, his knights had he to summon.
Many, brave, and powerful they were…”

“‘Dad?’ the child addressed his parent.
‘Yes, son?’ ‘How do I become a knight?’.
The father couldn’t help but laugh kindly
at his dear son. ‘You can’t. They don’t exist, anymore…’

‘The knights came from everywhere.
North, south, east and west.
To serve the king. But none of them,
could destroy the dire beast….

The king was dying, due to his past.
And not even the sharpest blade,
could aid him to forget…
He did not need a knight…’ “

” ‘Someone else came. A wizard.
He was known everywhere, his miracles were too.
The king summoned him, he had,
and like such, he arrived…

‘Oh, great king! How can I help you?
Please, the king answered, cure me.
What, milord, is making you ache?
The memories of my past.

‘I can’t make you forget, his reply was.
But, yourself, the path must find.
Travel alone, to the north,
as there, the truth lays…’ “

” ‘As he was told, he did.
To the north he went,
as far as he could,
and nothing he found.’

‘Father, will the king fail?’
the innocent child asked.
‘Do you want to spoil the tale?’
a smiling father replied.

‘His thoughts, in failure fell,
and discouraged he felt.
But not even like that,
he would let himself die.

‘A crystal tower he found,
with no apparent door.
His reflection he could see,
and a door he started to seek’ “.

” ‘The malefic wizard tricked me!
his thought was, on that place.
But, after some deep thought,
he decided to search some more.

‘No door, no window,
no stair nor balcony.
The crystal was,
only a perfect mirror.

‘He sat on the sand,
and gazed to the sky.
Blue. Clouds. Sky.
But he saw nothing.

Nothing but the tower,
reflecting him,
the sky on the tower,
and the tower itself…’ “

” ‘The king at the tower
quite defeated he felt.
A fool I am! he said.
As a trickster that mage was.

‘The night fell, and near
the tower, he decided to rest.
The moon shone on the sky,
and on the tower as well.

‘His eyelids heavy felt,
and in a split second,
within a dream he fell…’
his father said.

‘Will the king fail?’
the frightened child said.
‘I’m scared, and I don’t
want to hear him fail’.

‘Fear not, I ask you, as
this tale ended has not,
and plenty of time we have’,
his father replied as well.

‘Nightmares his dreams had,
and by demons sieged he was,
but the stars fled,
and the moon did as well.

‘The night over was,
and the Sun shone again.
But the tower and the king,
ready to fight were again.

‘Taking his sword, the king said:
Tower of fiends, your truth reveal!
As I, a king, an answer seek!
But, the tower, reply could not.

‘But for a second,
his reflection managed to see.
Intrigued by this sight,
he just released a sigh.

‘Such a familiar sight,
and yet, a stranger was:
the king, on a mirror,
before he never been had.

‘For a minute he stared,
for a minute, no more.
Terrified he was, as his
demon there was.

‘There, on the tower,
his fiend could be seen,
and he walked away,
but the demon did not.

‘All his fears stolen were,
by the shining reflect.
Return to his kingdom he did,
and by the people, welcomed he was.

‘However, the wizard gone was,
nowhere to be found.
A legend he became,
with a cherished tale…’

‘Is this the tale’s end?’,
the child finally said.
‘Yes, my son. Indeed it is’,
his father replied as well…”

It isn’t really related to MS, but I felt like publishing it…

[PS] Still didn’t get verification code I HATE YOU WIZET YOU HURT MY FEELINGS