Name: Old fashioned Orc
Duration: P00H03M56S
Description: I did some research on orcs as a creature of myth and legend through the ages and found it quite interesting. They have been around for a long, long time and are pretty cool, actually.

Old fashioned Orc

from Bleib auf der Couch! Con by Jela Schmidt

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I did some research on orcs as a creature of myth and legend through the ages and found it quite interesting. They have been around for a long, long time and are pretty cool, actually.

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Oldfashioned Orc

I'm an old fashioned Ork from before Tolkiens time
I've changed through the ages as every creature will
Once I was a deaths' demon, then I was just his aide
Now I am a solitary hermit on my hill

I watch over the wild herds of stag, goat and elk
Whoever hunts within my realm will track in vain
While I'm the herdsman no huntsman will take one of my own
And he who tries will not live to see the day

Though I live all by myself I am not alone
The trees that hide me are my friends and home
And I sit in silent solitude and watch the days go fast
I like this life much better than the last

The stories told about my kind change who and what I am
The stories say I'm ugly, that I am cruel and cold
Others say that in great need I am the best of friends
If you treat me right you gain my treasure chest of gold

The stories change and in time they change me in their wake
Books spread faster than spoken word once did
Even faster spread the pictures that seem to live and talk
I wake a different creature and I don't know where I fit

Day by day I feel more alone
The trees no longer seem to be my home
Still I sit in silent solitude and watch the days go fast
I liked myself much better in the past

I try to hold on, for my old self I fight
But my thoughts now turn to slaughter, bloodshed and to war
No matter what I want to be I cannot change the tide
I have to be the way that written Orks now are

So I turn into a soldier, a cruel fighter and a beast
Your stories make me a demon once again
I yet hold enough of my old self to hate what I now am
For you made me the enemy of man

Surrounded by my kind I am not alone
But I forget how it felt to be at home
The memories of solitude are vanishing too fast
I only hope that this change will not last
I only hope this change is not the last

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from Bleib auf der Couch! Con, released March 30, 2020

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