//------------------------------// // Trials and Tests of Life/Make Life Your Own (Past Sins) // Story: The Wanderings of My Mind // by Fiend from the Darkness //------------------------------// Trials and Tests of Life/Make Life Your Own Past Sins When you have no past to call your own When your looks cause doubt to be sown A filly taken into another's home So she may be happy, not forced to roam A happy life without idea of who she was A happy foalhood of warmth and fuzz Three new friends to adventure together Four little fillies like birds of a feather But alas, this could not last For nopony can outrun mistakes of their past Come to light to cause a scene The Nightmare causing the tower to lean Twilight staring, lost in thought Losing Nyx, forgiveness then sought In New Nightmare Moon, she sees her daughter so loved Close to her death, this for this decision she's shoved But nothing in this world, can beat what Twilight's sown And away from her death, Twilight is thrown For her little filly Nyx, finally had enough Coming down on Nexus, Nyx starts getting tough The sun will start to rise again, the ponies think they're freed Only to be crushed again, though Nyx no longer leads A curse discovered, the Nightmare cult is gone Twilight's love of little Nyx, come out, shown and shone No one left for comfort, a house that's not a home Too guilty to even leave the place, to guilty to try and roam Little Nyx has lost it all, friends and family too She lost it all, to her fall, when her magic was forced anew Now she has a castle, but money makes not the mare She only seems happy, when ponies come back to share So share she does, glad to do her part Though when the monsters attack at last, she fights with a heavy heart Guilt for being the cause, the cause of this attack But though she may be guilty, courage she does not lack Stop the monsters, fight for those who must escape this town Even if, in the flood of monsters, she will surely drown But against all odds she finally beats them back And must hope to all above, they don't come back to sack What's left of the ponies homes, little though they have At least not one was lost, down to the smallest calves Now Nyx must face her judgement, for upon release Princesses will be livid, demanding the Nightmare cease A beautiful finale, with Nyx's final fate She got to stay with Twilight, not victim to others' hate A well deserved fillyhood, for the lovely little foal Though rocky it may be, love will fill the hole No memory left of Nightmare Moon to taunt her little Nyx Though her guilt as the Nightmare Queen has no easy fix And down the road in hope they start, towards a better life One that will not be, without a little strife But hope they do, each day improved, upon the one before On with each step, continue to move, finding each new door Without a doubt life is a test, to try our very core All we can do is our best, continuing to soar -Eclipse