[Poem] Moonlit Mother

[Haidene-moonglade]

MOONLIT MOTHER – a background story poem.

Moonlit mother, after your vigil,
that lasted a thousand years.
The child now born in your sigil,
has brought you happy tears.

Moonlit mother, in wintery springs,
guarding The Gem from strife.
Fear you what the Shattering brings,
as the Hederine claim your life?

Moonlit mother, in shadowy lands,
do you know the end of the gloom?
When my druid dies to hold my hands,
and make our Alor’el bloom.

Moonlit mother, as time goes by,
will he join you ever soon?
We will hear him cry, our daughter and I,
and take him to Elune.

[Moothilda-aszune (Moothilda)]

You make me think of old folksongs with this

Do I read it correctly:
It’s a poem about an elf joining the service of Elune because of the occurences in the world?
Or is it a death poem?

[Haidene-moonglade]

Haidene silently points to the distance:

Forgive me father for i have sinned.

‘Elune forgive my failings. The death of my wife and daugther is my fault. When my beloved Haidene fell into a coma during the Cataclysm, I arranged for her to be tended at the Temple of the Moon in Darnassus. When my little Ithiluna begged me for druidic training, I arranged for her tutorlage at Thal’darah Grove in the Stonetalon Mountains. My absence consumed them in fire. I wanted to protect them. I tried. I tried so hard! But I was not strong enough! I was not strong enough! I should have be…

[Moothilda-aszune (Moothilda)]

Oh dear, that poem just became much stronger