The Keep

War!
A keep sits nestled inside a walled castle.
Outside these walls war rages.
Fires light the night and arrows fill the sky.
But the walls hold.
Soldier after Soldier crash against the walls.
Bodies litter the the fields outside.
Inside the walls the keep sits untouched.
Its newly constructed walls hold.
Days pass and the keep stands tall.
Armies fall to the wall.
Its layers are deep and its engineers clever.
After many battles the wall has been reinforced and improved.
But as the months press on and the armies rise and fall.
Something makes its way inside the keep.
Or rather Someone.

Ronin

A Ronin wanders the country side.
He follows no road.
He carries nothing with him but hurt pride.
His feet move with out purpose.
He carries on with his sojourn because he can.
But something troubles him just beneath the surface.
He has wandered lost for sometime now.
Looking for answers to the past and the future
He struggles not with the why but the how.
With out a master he must press on
He must find his new purpose
Until then he will start his life a new every break of dawn.