LISTEN THIS SONG WITH THE POEM FOR MAXIMIZED EXPERIENCE [link]

Here it is now. The dramatic ending for The Canterlot Series, “By Your Side Forever and Ever”, based on Battlelore’s Doombound.

And man, I couldn’t be more satisfied. I had originally planned this to be an upbeat, romantic and sappy duet between Cadance and Shining Armor in contrast to the previous downer part, but I couldn’t find a song that would have worked for it. After a while I had settled upon Within Temptation’s “Angels” – and the more I worked on it, the more I hated it. It was contrived writing at its worst.

Then one night I gave up and started searching for options again, and I finally had the epiphany with the Tolkien-metallers: the doom-harking riffs, bittersweet vocals, ethereal atmosphere and gorgeous melodies. It offered an ending that worked both in bittersweet ambiguity, tender romance and epic climax.

Instead of the duet I originally planned, this one became a gender-flipped hymn for love; instead of the shining knight singing of his fair maiden, the maiden sings of her knight at the darkest of hours. And the rest is history.

I wrote this poem in one sitting and deleted the stub WT crap.


The Canterlot Series
Syöpäläisvaltiatar / Parasite Queen [link]
Prisoner in the Mountain [link]
Since the Days When I Was Small [link]
I Dreamed of Every Princess’ Dream [link]
The Clouds of Invasion [link]
By Your Side, Forever and Ever you are here

My Little Pony ©
"Doombound" © Battlelore, from the album “Doombound”.
Song is used as a soundtrack for the lyrical content in terms of tribute, homage, parody and ponies.
The thumbnail “Cadence and Shining Armor” [link] belongs to

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My MLP poetry, My Little Poems, can be found here [link]