zg_shadows | I couldn't make this good. I'm sorry.

In time to come, you will forget my name.
Forget my face.
You never knew my heart.
I set the world on fire;
Nothing beside remains.

In future tales I'll just be one of nine
That fought today.
(And one you do not know
Yet gave you all he had)
And all one of a kind.

You'll call us heroes; give us other names
With flash and flare
That sparkle in the dark.
But we will never know;
We will not come again.

We've gone beyond where you can ever go.
Death is the end.
No heaven gapes for us.
Our death feast rots, untouched,
Beneath the falling snow.

Take up the brand we could not keep alight;
We bought this dear
(How dear you cannot know).
This thousand years will end
In one last chance for light.

In time to come, you will forget our names
But we won't care.
We gave you all we had.
Our soul-fires burn your dark;
Nothing beside remains.