This started as a Rose centric piece after 11 sees her image in "Let's Kill Hitler" and sort of took on a life of its own. Throughout the 6th series, I was really struck by Matt Smith's performance. At times, he showed the character's age and seemed, at points, to want to die. So that's sort of the perspective I took for this piece.
Give me solace and release me from this world,
Rest at last from the constant, aching reminder of all that is lost now,
Whatever powers up there that be, please now set me free,
In these final hours as I lay here with heavy, weighted breath,
If not, if my end must prolong much further here then please,
Give me forgiveness for my countless sins, offences against all I touch,
Every life that has suffered or fallen in my name or in memory of me,
All the bloody, burning battlefields left in my unwilling wake,
Let me know that all now be at peace and live peacefully as I, no more,
But no, you will not be so gentle and kind, you never are,
As always, you choose to let me suffer through it all, even in death,
You won't give me peace or release from it all, now, of course not,
You give me guilt.
If you like this, I have a collection of poems, 10/rose centered, called Power of Words.