“The Blade Remembers”
(A lament across dimensions)
How many times must I slay thee
to halt thy echoing sin?
Through centuries, through stars,
through skins I no longer recognize,
I find thee
and always the same.
The lie thou still clings to,
the wound thou hides beneath pride,
the war thou refuses to end…
Each life, a new weapon.
A sword in Camelot,
a bullet in trenches,
a word in neon-lit silence.
But every blow lands in the same place:
the heart of thy repetition.
Thou seest me too late.
I love thee too soon.
And every crossing
is stitched with the same thread:
an ending dressed as fate.
Yet still I wait
on the edge of another cosmos,
in a broken reflection of a dream once shared,
hoping to find thee again.
And if I do…
Please
this time,
do not die.
For each time I kill thee,
’tis not thy body I sever,
but the echo of thee
within myself.