Running

What keeps you running as the demons howl down your back?
It can't be the failures as they lay chained to your ankles.
It can't be you that you actually enjoy fighting in the pitch black.
So why aren't you tired of endlessly seeking through the dark?

I keep standing because I refuse to sit still in this darkness.
I keep walking because though failure stays, it's still behind me.
I keep running because I cannot go back defeated.
I keep fighting because I have seen into the darkness...

And I am not afraid.

Bonfires

Sometimes, in the darkness of the tunnels,
We have to whisper "No." to the dark.
We have to rise up with sword and shield 
For beyond our bonfires, so small in the dark,
We find skeletons and worse.
Fight we must, for foes lay ahead and behind.
To die a thousand times means rising again a thousand and one.