Only a Mirage [An Avengers Story]

"Your ledger is dripping, it's GUSHING red, and you think trusting a man no more virtuous than yourself will change anything from your nightmares? This is the basest sentimentality. This is a child at prayer... PATHETIC! You lie and kill in the service of liars and killers. You pretend to change side, to have your own code. Something that makes up for the horrors. But they are a part of you, and they will never go away!"
"Shut up!", I shouted at him, frantically slamming my fist against the glass in such force that a large crack formed on the once smooth and bulletproof compartment, tears streaming dangerously flooding my eyes.
I had just cracked an unbreakable glass...
The god of mischief looked up into my eyes and I swear I saw a small smirk of approval curling around his lips.
~*~
We burn ourselves from ashes
And rise like the phoenix
In the smouldering lashes.

We discover a diamond in the dust,
Like a needle in a haystack-
Everything we touch turns to rust.

We thirst for love
But find only a mirage
Some hearts are a desert you can die wandering above.