Unforgiven

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Author: Jun-I

Companion fic to Retribution/Crimson Blindness. Kyuuzou first person.


The dark warrior appeared
In an unforeseen hour
Speaking proud words
Of a soldier's honor

He spoke of unbending duty
Of things I could not understand
He brought blood to a child's hands
Brought his sword to an untouched land

In the name of the strange thing
He called 'honor'
He painted my world
A single color

The color of blood so red
So readily spilled
In that forgotten place
Where my childhood lay dead

I cannot stem pain
But I never cried
He had slain everything
Except my pride

I know not his name
Or whence he came
Without hope for vengeance
I have no release from shame

Is 'honor' without pity
So cold, so unbending
That he cannot stay from killing
Those who wish no harm?

Then let my curse follow him
Even if I can never find him
May 'honor' be a trap to him
Be his downfall, his doom

Let him find no peace outside war
Feel no life in living
May the one he loves hate him
I curse him, for I am not forgiving

If we meet again
I will require at his hand
Recompense for all the years
Of tears I never cried

Then will I have my peace
Gain my blessed release
From the shame of the past
Then perhaps at long last

My world will be red no more