InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Poetry of the Sengoku Jidai ❯ Atonement ( Chapter 1 )

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Atonement

Though shame does not furrow your brow,

I see it in you.

Scorn and ridicule,

they trail your footsteps,

staining our honor, darkening our name.

Glorious heritage is yours,

dignity your blood's

reward. Yet you toss

them like waste, like a

worthless scrap of history. Insolence!

How dare you abandon Him? Me!

Foresake us! For what?

A short-lived passion?

Dreams that blow through time

like the wind? For this, you dishonor us?

Your effrontery stabs at me,

bleeds on father's grave,

tracks bloody prints through

memories of Him.

In you, his great failure is now my own.

Twists of chance bind us in threads of

unconscious fealty,

ties we slash against

in a vortex of

infighting, dragging us down to disgrace.

Duty demands that I restore

our dignity, but

my pride exacts a

price. I must look down

On your bowed head, accept your atonement.

Then - you shall be free of me.