Blood for Blood

A breath of air for the first time in year

Interrupted by tiresome awareness

Dreamless sleep in a murky vacuum

Cut short as an unfulfilled promise

Back on this path?

What the hell has happened here?

Was finally dead

How much left of this torture?

Morose, cold, and alone

Feels just like home

Promised deliverance annulled

Liars everywhere

Darkness shattered by light

In the distance, a comforting sight

Watching the lands on which I've grown

Become familiar, yet wrong

Betrayed again

What of the silence?

Laid out bare like a grayscale memory

Of all that was left, all that was loathed

Loved ones mill about

Aimlessly as a white sun crests

Marionettes of those who tried to help

Drifting along as the damned

Ignoring every move, every action

Eerie reflections of the past

Morose, cold, and alone

Feels just like home

Promised deliverance annulled

Liars everywhere

Darkness shattered by light

In the distance, a comforting sight

Watching the lands in which I've grown

Become familiar, yet wrong

Eye for an eye

This once known place is now just

A shallow reflection

Pain for pain

Features distorted in light

But the treatment's the same

Life for a life

Anger replaces despair

As the gray turns to red

Blood for blood

Will no longer be ignored

Will not accept the scorn

Faceless on approach

Reactionless

Look upon this, this is pain

Externalizing all this hate

Drag to ground, scratch and bite

Stomp on the neck and grind it down

What a surprise, still ignored?

No expression? No repercussions?

Continue on as if nothing happened

But the blood still stains these hands

Eye for an eye

Over and over again

They're attacked with no recompense

Pain for pain

Efforts continue ignored

As the rage subsides thirst begins

Blood for blood

Wander off now, find the well

It's filled red with a note that reads

“Blood for blood

Drink it in, feel again

Breathe it in, suck it down”

Blood for blood