Metis Ronin

By Ami E. Bowen

1.On the night of my birth, Luna shone so round and bright

And I'm told that my father had just got beaten in a fight

But as the wolf-pack howled and the rain fell softy down

I cringed into a tighter ball, trying to hide from that sound

2.Growing up was quite a pain as I'm sure you would agree

I don't blame my Dad for leaving, I would too if I were he

Pack-mates were often cruel, and the beatings I did take

For a night of single passion, I'm the fruit of their mistake

3.My eyes are dim and cloudy, and my flesh is peeling some

Others try hard not to see me, and my heart is getting numb

Living as an outcast, I crawl and beg for food

But since I've learned to shift my form, it really messes with my mood

4. I sit alone and weep, and the rain is falling down

On the rocks near the river, my mother's body, it was found

Torn to pieces, blood had splattered, all across the shore

As I touched her lifeless form, I felt the anger to my core

5. "Who did this?" I screamed, and waited for an answer, but no one would reply

I laid my mother on the ground and wept a bitter tear, Why did she have to die?

Memories of childhood, adult and in-between

Mocking and cold-blooded tongues and the jokes, they were obscene

6. A voice growled out from behind me, I did not recognized at first

"Your Mother was a whore and deserved what she got!" from the bushes he did burst

With eyes of gleaming yellow and metal in his grin

One glance in his maddened eyes and I knew that we were kin

7. "Bastard!" I spat, snarled and circled about,

He watched me with eyes glistening and keen,

"You killed her!" I leaped at his throat as I did shout

With lightning moves, he landed safe, Laughing; "Her death was a joy to be seen!"

8. Turning in midstride, altering forms swift as the breeze,

Pain through my limbs is nothing as my heart did freeze

Claws out, teeth bared in a snarl of justifiable rage

The key was finally in my hand, all I had to do was open the cage

9. Slashing, biting....I felt it all

I watched the old wolfen one fall

The rain had come again, washed from my face, my fur; the blood

As a final touch, I kicked into his battered face, a clump of mud

10. Cradling my father's death-still frame

A storm was in my soul, I'll never be the same

I know he left because he loathed my existence, my sight

As I watched the sun rise, holding him in my arms, I felt suddenly right

11. Father had done wrong, loved a pack-mate so

Disregard of Litany, If only it could never show

Yet, flawed I was from the start

No one can heal this torn up heart

12. Friends are foes and lives are lost

Sanity has been the cost

What do I care, I long to die

And with the rain, I long to cry

13. Ran across another one, cackling laugh and gleaming way

Took me by the hand and said; "Come with me, let's play!"

Foolish Cub, I whispered to myself as I followed him into the cave

Fire and smoke and whirling hues, once inside myself I couldn't save

14. Dancing forms, grabbing me, tearing my clothes to shreds

Spinning around and about, at last falling down to hard stone beds

Nightmares did plague me then, creatures of deepest fear

Breathe on my neck as some one drew near

15. Groggily, my mind did focus,

Flashes of light, some kind of hocus-pocus

Struggling to fight it off, this sleepiness will be my doom

"Wake up and come dance with me," Wyld is caught in Weaver's loom

16. Spinning around the floor, cave walls burn with gore

Slashing with a small flint knife, I know that it wants more

Sighing in ecstasy, I willing give up my soul

Serve the Wyrm and I would be whole

17. Life after that point had become such a blur

Wickedness and destruction, killing of things in skin and fur

Payment was good, I had a place to stay

And every night, even if it were raining, I would dance around and play

18. Parties and gallivanting all across the wide wide earth

Raped a million times, like sweet Gaia, from my birth

The mortals try to kill me, and the Garou all do the same,

The leeches don't care either way, as long as I don't mess up their game

19. I don't know much, but one thing I've learned as I go

life is like a river, just be sure to follow the flow

If it washes you up on shore or bashes your skull against a rock

Don't sit there acting stupid, you don't belong there, there's no talk

20. Howling alone at night and now nothing ever seems right

I know this is true, Gaia has turned her back to me

So into the darkness I run, into the shadows; I flee

Twisting my soul down another road

My burdens suddenly become a horrible load

Such is the life, for misborn like me

"Metis Ronin"