Born

So now I pay
I’m punished by the same sword that saved me every goddamn day
The deal we made, you get me through this
And you can have all that remains
I can’t let things go
I’ll spite everything and everyone until it seeps through my pores.
Hate is all that I’ve known
It’s the price I pay for being born
What I pay for being born
To those I love, it’s time for me to go
This is my reckoning
I feel it in my bones
It’s safe to say I knew that it would end this way
A debt unpaid collected by he whom wears my face
Dear mother, I will bring you shame no more
My abdomen is ready so hand me the sword