Filk: The Swords of Kahless

[Qe'van, Bard of Nor]

Filk: The Swords of Kahless
Tune: The Sounds of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel)
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Hello Kahless, Emperor
I call to you from Terok Nor
I had a vision, had a seeing
I saw the Klingon Empire fleeing
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
We need the Sword of Kahless

Within my dream I float alone
Naked, hungry, far from home
All around me are the ruins of war
Bathed with the glow of alien stars
Then my sight was filled by a Borg fleet passing by
It was a sign
We need the Sword of Kahless

And in the Borg fleet there, I saw
A billion Klingon drones or more
Klingon seeming, but drones they were
Klingon appearance without honor
Klingons that you know, whose glories you have shared
We must prepare
We need the Sword of Kahless

And then I heard in tlhIngan Hol
Words that seared me to the soul
"Futile resistance will not help you
We have come to assimilate you"
But those words, those war-time boasts were quelled
By the sword that I held
Of Kahless

A billion Kling-drone voices cried
Re-beat their Klingon hearts inside
Then the Sword slashed out its warning
To the Borg threat that is forming
This the Sword warned:
"The Borg and their Empire will
Shatter on a Klingon wall
We'll laugh at your fall
Our Warriors are the Swords of Kahless"
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Qe'van, Bard of Nor
May, 2000