Spat out from the maw of carnage slick with the battle's bile: a coat of blood, black and foul for war is hell and hell the churning chastening chilling gut of a beast beyond reproach.
Yes, I was there... I fought for you for your freedom I fought so you could sin another day I fought so you could curse my name I fought so you could scorn your savior and wonder why it is I love, you. Tell me: who is it that suffers greater?
The toil, is heavy I lumber forward, scars, like woodgrain, nest my body I am born of battle in my chest my heart does rattle empty for there is no room for weakness.
I form pillars of truth and justice I forge the righteous from weakness, purpose and all the while they grow stronger conviction in the unyielding dreams that bolster all men from breaking.
Yet you lob laughter at my prophets and greed is your only profit. **** my champions **** my children: men and women, with your lust and lustre, no matter, for in recompense for all your thoughtless vengeance, I pay in kind... Soon, you will envy, the blind.
It's so strange when a poem becomes more than what you intended. Take what you will from this, and a little more.