Elegy

As anger ebbed away

clarity returned crystal

i felt the warmth in my hands

 soaked in the blood red

Tears they came unbidden

a river a sea then an ocean deep

drowning my burning rage into dripping sorrow

for the first time i, i truly so wept

Broken bodies scattered

ashes, ashes, and only poignant ashes

where you are, my righteous

my desperate prayers be naught, to ears deaf

I stood there till came dawn

And with its first radiant sunrise

I saw eyes, unblinking eyes, dead

damning soul, mine, forever mine

Thus I ran, ran and ran

to do away my guilt, unburden my woe

but they never left me

so an elegy to lost innocence of my soul

I pray never will there be a time

when man may need to take life

for each life he takes, he takes his own

shackled in the purgatory wandering alone..