Erikson, Steven - Malazan 06 - Erikson, Steven by Erikson Steven

Author:Erikson, Steven [Steven, Erikson,]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-03-08T22:10:15.375000+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

And all these people gathered

to honour the one who had died,

was it a man, a woman, a warrior,

a king, a fool, and where were

the statues, the likenesses painted

on plaster and stone?

yet so they stood or sat, the wine

spilling at their feet, dripping red

from their hands, with wasps

in their dying season spinning about

in sweet thirst and drunken

voices cried out, stung awake

voices blended in confused

profusion, the question asked

again then again – why? But this

is where a truth finds its own wonder,

for the question was not why did

this one die, or such to justify

for in their heart of milling lives

there were none for whom

this gathering was naught

but an echo, of former selves.

They asked, again and yet again,

why are we here?

The one who died had no name

but every name, no face but every

face of those who had gathered,

and so it was we who learned

among wasps swept past living

yet nerve-firing one last piercing

that we were the dead

and all in an unseen mind—

stood or sat a man, or a woman,

a warrior, queen or fool, who

in drunken leisure gave a moment’s

thought to all passed by in life.

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