{"id":4525,"date":"2025-09-28T16:33:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axis-v.com\/?p=4525"},"modified":"2026-05-04T20:50:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:50:31","slug":"when-the-sword-sleeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axis-v.com\/en\/when-the-sword-sleeps\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Sword Sleeps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the sword sleeps, but the heart is still burning,<br>To whom does the battle belong: to me or to the shadow?<br>Is it worth going where will dies,<br>And the trace of honor vanishes on the path?<br><br>Does being mean believing in the truth,<br>That the world has not rotted, but is simply tired?<br>Or is it better to disappear into oneself, as if in an enclosure,<br>Where every choice is scorched by pain?<br><br>I saw the day that killed the night\u2019s silence,<br>I heard a love that would have been better left unheard.<br>I touched betrayal, as if on the day of parting,<br>And found no harbor in his eyes.<br><br>So let death not be merely a payment,<br>But that word which is not given to the living.<br>For who are we, if not bodies with a crucified<br>Soul that cries out in the unknown?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the sword sleeps, but the heart is still burning,To whom does the battle belong: to me or to the shadow?Is it worth going where will dies,And the trace of honor vanishes on the path? 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