{"id":432,"date":"2025-08-04T11:06:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/?p=432"},"modified":"2025-08-04T11:06:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:06:33","slug":"chains-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/2025\/08\/04\/chains-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Chains of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><em>Because great troubles also contain great hope.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Clash of magic and flash of steel<br \/>\nMadness crowned by stubborn will<br \/>\nBright and shining hope confined<br \/>\nA hero\u2019s heart and hero\u2019s duty now maligned.<\/p>\n<p>Deamon breath by ocean shore<br \/>\nChaining virtue as a power store.<br \/>\nShining silver against the chains<br \/>\nBeauty and power struggle and strains.<\/p>\n<p>A hero in heart is now restrained<br \/>\nA hero in duty his course remains.<br \/>\nA magician\u2019s spell to guard a soul<br \/>\nBroken by a tyrant\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n<p>A moment of fire in bitter choice<br \/>\nA moment the hero finds his voice.<br \/>\nA shield and sword raised on high<br \/>\nA hero felled and left to die.<\/p>\n<p>But the sole he strove to save<br \/>\nFinds hear heart and thwarts the knave.<br \/>\nPower of truth and power of light<br \/>\nThe deamon cannot withstand the fight.<\/p>\n<p>A bright hope with power born<br \/>\nStands over the hero\u2019s still form.<br \/>\nThrough the hope they both share<br \/>\nRestores his life then and there.<\/p>\n<p><em>Chains of Light<\/em> copyright \u00a9 Heather Strickler 2025 all rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because great troubles also contain great hope. Clash of magic and flash of steel Madness crowned by stubborn will Bright and shining hope confined A hero\u2019s heart and hero\u2019s duty now maligned. Deamon breath by ocean shore Chaining virtue as a power store. Shining silver against the chains Beauty and power struggle and strains. 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