Defeat Poem

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I passed all the tests and finally won

Even those that left me shattered

I beat to the impossible, to the most horrible


In the end I dare not claim the treasure

In the end, I learned to fear my own obsession more

Than what I thought I was most afraid of


I learned to fear to the very heart that I had earned

A heart that was not poisoned, but that was killing me

After losing sanity, after reaching the very edge of death

And then being there, sleeping in a sleepy grave


I can see my hands are tarred , my wings are tarred

I see I cannot longer serve to that heart

If I ever wanted to deserve her

Then I had to stop playing with death

Then the choice to turn my back was no longer mine


But a knight comes to save me

And with whom I feel indebted

A someone who gave me his humanity

Someone for whom I cried, for a second time


With time I emerge, reborn as human

When I finally return to the bright surface of the world

I see sad dismissal arriving, because it was time

To carry on alone, to find myself again.


He gave me his heart, a radiant heart

That gave me back my appetite for living life

That gave me back the reins to live life

Then the choice to turn my back was now mine


Please be safe friend

Don't you dare miss your humanity

Thank you...


Following now my own way, alone

I defeat my biggest fears

Finaly, I now live in harmony

And again history repeats itself


And again the world comes to seem doomed

Drowning into the past

Watching myself how, in a deliberate act,

I destroy all the blood in a single touch

For what I once gave for even the last drop of life

Of the life I once had


And in my obsession to keep fighting I find

That once again the fuel that gives me victory

Turns out to be my very own defeated heart


Once again here I am crying

Sitting on the throne that I gave everything to conquer

And think ...


At least, those who give up have something to live for...

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⏰ Last updated: Aug 29, 2020 ⏰

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