"The Agent of the Dark" by Jennifer L. Post

Boom, boom go the drums,

Thud, thud beats my heart.

Run, run chants my mind,

As I dash through the dark.

Till the end they never guessed,

That I always knew their plans.

I betrayed them to the dark,

And spread strife throughout their clans.

Boom, boom, sound the drums,

Thud, thud beats my heart.

Now the pursuit is coming quickly,

As I race on through the dark.

I don’t know how he found me,

Their champion of light;

But I see him there before me

And I know I’ll have to fight.

Boom, boom pound the drums,

In cadence with my heart.

Swords slide from their sheltering sheaths,

Blades flashing in the dark.

I leap at him my sword raised high,

But he deflects the blow.

He parries with a sideways cut,

My blood begins to flow.

Boom, boom, I curse the drums,

Echoed by my pounding heart.

Our swords clash and crash again,

Light grapples with the dark.

Then comes the final, crushing blow,

As my sword comes arching down;

But time is up, his blade slides home,

And I tumble to the ground.

Boom, boom, the drums are fading,

Like the last beats of my heart.

There is no help or hope tonight,

For the agent of the dark.