Wretch

Born into this

I resolved

To wash the stain of their blood

From my soul

Revenants

Culled in this skin

Hear their cries

Cursed to live

Forever with

Their eyes

Locked on a long

Winding course

Where this trail lined in gore

Led to your arms

Wretched gift

Love like a torn

Phantom limb

Cauterized

For reasons that

Explained all

The moonlit night

Once again calls

This hunger is

All-consuming

The violence

Starts to play out

In this monomyth

So familiar

All behold this

Coronation

But something inside

Has begun fighting

Something more than just numbness

There's something so real

Shining in your eyes

Something I've sought for so long

I can let it go

Turn away from all this

Find a way to right the wrong of it

And though for my sins

There is no forgiveness

I'll still pay the debt I owe