Another day,

Another punishment.

Another price to pay, 

Another day I must live in banishment.

I scream into the void for answers:

"What have I done to deserve such treatment?"

But all I see are shadowy dancers,

Faceless figures from the past.

 

Dismissing me.

Ignoring me.

Overlooking me.

 

I reach out for one, 

But my hand is stopped.

The flow of time is chopped.

they are not here anymore,

Long since dead.

But I see them. 

Even if they are faceless.

Even if they are nameless.

They are the sinners who's crimes I must witness.

 

But they are the ones with the solutions.

I beg for their confessions,

Why must I suffer?

Why am I being condemned?

Every day just gets rougher, 

And once again,

All I get is muteness.

 

Well I've had enough.

I refuse to wear the handcuff.

These are games I didn't play,

Crimes I didn't commit,

Dragons I didn't slay,

Wars I didn't fight.

Yet I must reap the consequences of their crimes.

 

I try to learn of the monsters who lived before me.

Give them back their sins before they crush me.

 

I dig and dig and dig. 

But the mask falls and it is revealed,

All this time,

I've been searching for answers in a mirror from the past.

Now I must realise,

The faceless sinners I've been chasing have always been inside,

And I have long since become the monster I was born from.

 

-LénaCs