Persuveus Part Two

Each night we watched impatient

Mother was our only hope

She found the strength to keep us warm

and the will to cope

We yipped and yawned

and she stood near

Her heart could calm

our every fear

In the passing of the stars

she told the stories we longed for

and whispered of the lore

our own names were given to endure

"You are of the moon

The same your father knew

The name itself Persuveus

The strength to see you through"

"The stripes you wear

are its shadows long

and the voice you bear

is your father's song."

"You will yet rise

from this trap

and break the dawn

and the hunter's back"

Each day they came

by the hundreds and more

to watch us blinded

by their scores

Each night my mother

wasted slow

until the night

she had to go

I watched the tears

in by brother's eyes

as she breathed her last

and there she died