Honor Bound
© 2006 Joe and Rebecca Duval
…written especially for the Third Annual Competition
for Bard of Caid, A.S. XL, dedicated to the honor of
TRM Dietrich and Adriana, and to the glory of all Caid.
Somewhere along the way ‘tween here and ever-after
You must look, if you will find the road that you should choose.
There between the hope and despair, the crying and the laughter,
Somewhere along the way heaven waits for you.
In the half-light of a summer dawn, when all the world is quiet,
Stands a Knight on a lonely shore, lost in thoughts of home.
And his virtue fights for what he knows is right in the roaring of the silence.
Somewhere along the way, heaven waits for you.
He is Honor Bound; he knows where his duty’s found,
In the dust and dirt and the pain and hurt
and his blood running on the ground.
So he rises up to his enemy, he turns away from no man.
Today he’ll fight beside his King, but for his family.
To his foes’ surprise they are paying with their lives;
They’ll never take his homeland.
For he’s sworn as long as he still stands, it ever will be free.
In the half-light of a summer dawn, when all the world is quiet,
She stands alone on a distant shore, and dreams about her man.
And her virtue fights for what she knows is right in the roaring of the silence.
And she puts her hand upon h er heart; she’ll do the best she can.
She is Honor Bound; she knows where hers duty’s found,
In the hearth and home and their children grown
to be fair and brave and proud.
They walk hand in hand, though there is different lands,
But with endless love and with God above,
together they’ll make their stand.
Somewhere along the way, ‘tween here and ever-after,
You must look, if you will find the road that you should choose.
There between the hope and despair, the crying and the laughter,
Somewhere along the way heaven waits for you.