Poetry: A Battle Hymn of Hearts

A line

A flash

A brief, quick clash

Zips through my mind 

As it burns to ash

A step

A trick

Admonishment 

Pain for what I've done

To your detriment 

I walk

I fight

I won the right

To climb those steps

To the highest heights

I see

I hear

I have no fear

My chest is hollow

And my mind is clear

Once upon a time,

In a land we all know

There was a fiery battle 

With a stake in tow

Some won, some lost

But all were burned

Most by the ideals

Of which they'd learned

There was a time before

We were invincible

We were young and strong

Had basic principles

Our heads were in the clouds

Lost in pathetic ideals

Like the perfect little romance

No Achilles's heel

But after the fact

The past was black

We were all wounded

In the last attack

Scared and scarred

Missed and marred

Our hearts were a desert

With an endless far

Hope was a mirror

That was shattered in rage

Happiness, a cloud

Behind a mountain range

Safety had two faces

One black, one white

One the true redeemer

One a killer in the night

We tried, we failed

We couldn't prevail

We all fell prey 

To what life entails

And life is a puzzle

With a single missing piece

That binds us all to search

A infinite caprice 

 

A thought 

A dream

Not what it seems

Life is an endless war

Within an endless scheme

A search

A find

You'll lose your mind

Chasing your delusions

In never ending time 

I loved

I lost

I know the cost

This is my penance 

And not yours to accost

I stop

I start

This is my art

Screaming to the sky

A Battle hymn of hearts