Blood for Blood

A breath of air for the first time in years 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
Feel 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

Betrayed again
What of the silence?

Laid out bare like a greyscale memory of all that was left, all that was loathed
Loved ones mill about aimlessly as a white Sun crests

Marionettes of those tried who tried to help
Drifting along as the damned
Ignoring every move, every action
Eerie reflections of the past

Morose, cold, and alone
Feel 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 treatments the same
Life for a life
Anger replaces despair as the grey turns to red
Blood for blood
Will no longer be ignored, will not accept 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
Drink it in, feel again
Breathe it in, suck it down

Blood for blood