Cottage Chronicles

Corpse

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Oh the wolf, doesn't it feel

Mightier and mightier after every hunt?

The weakest, the most vulnerable, the purest

Isn't it them, you want to defile.

As the dawn of war breaks

Into the peaceful midnight dream,

You snatch me from my nest,

Unreachable, empty promises - your hoax,

As you point to the constellations above.

Lying! Lying to my family, lying to all those I love!

Oh that web of nectar, wasn't it so sweet till it lasted,

Even if just a pretence to trap us in the poison?

The idea of living through that period of hell,

just for the idea of my pack living through,

I agreed to come with you. Wasn't it

Such a fair bargain? Life for life

Without the death of any name?

Oh what age was I? Could I comprehend

What the dark clouds yelled?

Could I comprehend why others were distressed?!

'Isn't she too young?' Didn't you think that too,

Then why, why you forgot I was a daughter too!

When I refused to submit, you beat me to death,

When I refuse to live, why can't you leave me to death?

I woke each day, counting my reasons to live,

And the only reason I could fathom

Was tell this wrenching tale.

Each day, for hours, you killed me;

Each hour gone by, an year gone by.

Gone by in shame, in helplessness, in death.

Eight years is a long time,

Imagine what is eighty then?

I came back, because You had lost!

And in your purple shame, did you try to hide

The sins you committed?

Oh you packed us off in a lowly ship,