Never the Final Word (Vol. 2)

by FanOfMostEverything

Not_A_Hat's Stop the Dream, I Want to Get Off (Everyday's "My father / was a Night Guard")

Author's Note:

[Poetry][Comedy]

Strap in. This one's complicated.

This is a response to Everyday's "My father / was a Night Guard" (1,129 words, [Poetry][Dark][Mystery]), the second chapter of the Dream a Little Dream of Me anthology, which in turn is a collection of attempted to solutions to the mystery of The Last Dreams of Pony Island.

SUMMARY: There is a murder on a remote Equestrian colony at the time of Luna's banishment, and readers were tasked with determining who did it. However, the following poem was inspired more than anything by the first line of its direct source material, thought by a dreamwalking batpony investigator.

My father was a Night Guard,
And I would be one too,
If I could leave this island,
forget my dreams of you.

You sank beneath the water,
cold blue and crystal clear,
The peace that you were seeking,
It found you, mother dear.

And now I'm stuck with cleaning
the mess you left behind.
To go and die is one thing,
It's all this work I mind!

I skim the dreams of strangers,
Ponies I never knew.
I'm sick of all this thinking!
Just tell me - Who killed who?

I'll have a name in moments,
A crook to take the blame.
Cabotage! You're the killer!
I'm done here - buck this game!

I'm off to be a Night Guard,
Tides take this isle of fools!
I won't live in a palace,
but Night Guards follow rules.

None of this stupid squabbling,
No bicker, rue, or strife,
Concerning who said what thing,
or who kissed who's bat wife!

I'll catch the first old trawler,
yacht, schooner, galleon, raft,
I'll work my way or simply
'persuade' them with my craft.

But I will be a Night Guard.
Just watch me! It will come!
And swapping tales, I'll tell them,
the Dreams of Myinnkyun.