Adopted for Asgard

By: Dylan Hopper, Editor-In-Chief

I will not provide this kingdom with light.
I shall never be their sun. For bright red
heroics are solely founded in their best born.
I am the other
one, not of their flesh.
Underestimate me, now.
I am merely the shade
you cast aside.
My brother, believe me,
I am never beside you.
I am only the quiet following
your thunder. You are the noise
that silences, slices my silver lips
with righteous golden wire. You
have always fought metal to metal with me,
and I have perpetually replied
with furious ambivalence. I eternally engage
to disengage, yet we remain tied
to the lie: I am
part of you.