Wizard Banished
Why did you look

  
Twilight drapes the hills of Eldrida  
among the whispering wheat  
a figure walks  
cloak of fading purple  
stooped, slow  
a scarecrow stands in the field  
he too wears a hat  
 
Mists rise near Kamenosong  
footsteps vanish in moss  

mmmmmmmmmm  
a lantern in the stable  
a bowl of stew  
warm bread  
a bed of hay  
 
Who are you, wanderer?  
I... don’t know  
They say I’m a wizard  
But I’ve forgotten the words  
 
At dawn, I must walk again  
the path calls through Black Fern Hollow  
Stay, they say  
You may tend goats  
rest near the oven  
eat and sleep  

But I must walk where the trees remember  
past ruined altars  
and overgrown stones  
toward the Tower of Fog  
and that is not easy  

Don't be kind  
I might stay  
and I cannot stay  
 
What is your name...?  

I… do not know  

Then I will call you...  
Radgar Purplerobe  

So walks Radgar Purplerobe  
at dawn, under frost-laced branches  
past silent farms and low bell towers  
and when the bells of five villages ring in chorus  
the wizard has passed by  
and left no footprints