{"sf1_id":733998,"sf2_id":null,"title":"The Four Horsemen (poem)","author":"MysticActual","words":118,"posted_at":"2014-07-22T17:13:00.000Z","tags":["Death","God","Horsemen","Plague","Poem","War","conquer","famine"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/733998-the-four-horsemen-poem","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/733998","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=733998\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"I grew up always interested by the four horsemen, Death, War, Plague (Conquer) and Famine. So I decided to write this.","content":"Hoofbeats knock the bloodied ground\n\nscreams fill the sky,\n\nthe end of days hath come 'round.\n\nOh, the forsaken sound.\n\nFirst come riding a horse of white\n\nConquer, its unholy knight,\n\nan ebony bow drawn blacken arrow\n\nsapping the spirit, humanity's marrow.\n\nNext a rider of pure anger and gore\n\na brown horse he rides his name be War,\n\na scarlet blade soaked in blood\n\nyou die today, just like you should.\n\nThird ride a mare of black\n\nits rider of noble blood,\n\ndrought and locust at his back\n\nthe poor lay in the mud.\n\nLast a pale horse rides\n\nits passenger demons at his side,\n\nDeath is his only name\n\nthrough night he rides a unholy reign.\n\n  \n  \n\n"}