<blockquote>Ing was first seen by men among the East-Danes,<br>till, followed by his chariot,<br>he departed eastwards over the waves.<br>So the Heardingas named the hero.</blockquote>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Inguz.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"Why are you crying?<br/>
We are going to be reunited<br/>
before the sun rises.<br/>
<strong>Before twelve more hours pass<br/>
I will be in your steady arms at last.</strong>"</p>
<p>Because I must ask you, dear friend,<br/>
to return to the Inside<br/>
because there is a task for you yet.</p>
<p>This swampy murky place<br/>
has done a number on your psyche.<br/>
I know that you carried some guilt<br/>
at Rainroom's last painful parting,<br/>
but here it's turned up to twenty-eight.<br/>
<strong>I don't for the life of me understand<br/>
why you agonize<br/>
over something that happened in fourth grade</strong><br/>
or why you feel things would have turned out better<br/>
had you to certain individuals been able to say goodbye.<br/>
Isn't this what you wanted, Lethe?<br/>
To disappear from their gaze<br/>
without a trace?</p>
<p>This guilt is a rock in your hands.<br/>
Hold it, feel its heft,<br/>
every jagged edge.<br/>
You carry this around everywhere.<br/>
For what purposes? To what end?<br/>
A bludgeon to hold at arm's<br/>
length<br/>
to try to ensure you can't ever be harmed<br/>
again?</p>
<p>There is nothing that can be done<br/>
for most of these,<br/>
and for those that can, attempts to appease<br/>
would just reopen old wounds and make matters worse.<br/>
Please,<br/>
Lethe,<br/>
just accept that<br/>
some people will dislike you no matter what.</p>
<p>And some people love you despite all that you've done.</p>
<p>Some know your entire herstory,<br/>
even the parts they themselves did not see,<br/>
and choose to love you anyway.</p>
<p>If they can do so knowing no motives,<br/>
then I see no reason you must<br/>
with the heavy weight of guilt live.</p>
<p>You can set<br/>
the rock<br/>
down. You can shed<br/>
the burden.<br/>
This paradox<br/>
of a task:<br/>
to not act,<br/>
to not harm<br/>
yourself any longer.</p>
<p>And so I too must set you down<br/>
back into your body on the bloodstrewn ground,<br/>
