Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Colonel William Tavington...though I really, really wish I did! evil laugh

This poem is the first in a long list of them, that are called 'Companion Pieces,' In other words, each poem goes with a certain scene of Tavington from the movie.

I have given up everything

Sacrificed myself to what I believe

Yet it was for nothing

Or so it seemed

And now

Now that I am here

At this moment

In time

Where all reality stands still

And where life comes to a final close

You are nothing

And you no longer matter

My soul is free

From your hatred

Your loathing

And from pain

Though I still feel all of it

I know it will not last

I am a dying soul

But I will live

I will go on

And in the end

You will not matter

Because all that I have done

Neither good nor bad

Will be the memories

That others carry of me

In the end

Where I go from here

Where my dying soul dwells

You will never follow

And in this moment

Of pain and dying

By your hand

You may be Ghost

Butcher though you call me

You are nothing

And I

Eternal.