Gary Wassner
Author of the GemQuest series
Gary Wassner
Author of the GemQuest series
Book five of GemQuest now available!
Buy now on Amazon or from Barnes & Noble. When Monsters Call Out The Names Of Men brings the sweeping GemQuest saga to its epic and philosophical conclusion. In a world sustained for ages by the ancient, sentient Lalas trees…
Oh To Love
Oh, to love,Oh, to love.A curse upon this forsaken life.Oh, to love,Oh, to love.Pain so sharp, a twisting knife.Oh, to love,Oh, to love.What must I do to save my child.Oh, to love,Oh, to love.Torment so strong and dread so wild.…
Intent
He sings the song of a traitor’s death,he paints the walls of sorrow,he writes the verse of perpetual mourning,he dances with tomorrow. love the face of a forgotten memory,kiss the lips of fate,hold the hand of a rancorous enemy,recline on…
Are You So Sure?
You think the rain will always fall,and that the sun will rise each day,the water will rush to the shoreand the dead will rest where ‘ere they lay? With Autumn’s end comes Winter’s snow,Yet you trust the trees will bloom…
‘Tis the Deed That Matters
Time goes by and by and by,death and birth and death and birth and death and birth.Step upon the clay just once and shape forever our hallowed earth, A solitary tear may fallupon a distant star,In darkness deep a child…
What Will It Be?
Could it be? Will it come to pass?Is the gloaming of the trees verily here at last?What of all that they protect?What of those they hinder?Is it due to their neglector to the storms that linger?After his fall?After it all?After…
Choices, Choices, Choices
What is this life for?What path must we choose?The more that we struggle, the more that we lose.We kill to preserve,We die to survive,A contradiction in terms?Yet we are still alive.Is the battle we wage worth the price of the…
Tomorrow’s Song
Caught between the thoughts that giveand those that take away…A longing to go forward,the reasons yet to stay…Perched upon the steepest edge,with choices still to make,A step onto the fragile ledge…All others to forsake.A move that takes you to a…
The Armadiel
His body seethes, it does not breathe,His soul is black and cruel.He sits upon his throne of tears,and contemplates his rule.No living things dare go too near,Their fear is strong and true,For he is the bane of life itself,All fear…
The Demon’s Hound
So ends the path that honor pavedupon this somber ground.To be traveled once and ne’er againby ones not lost but found.A passage to the darkest place,the source of fear unbound.Measure the reason for which you come,against the risk you take,Tread…
Finders Keepers
So much you can, so much you can’t,Choose those things you must.How loud you rave, how loud you rant,We all return to dust.Do what you may along the way,Be brave, be strong, be true.‘Tis not enough, idly by to sitWhen…