I did not choose this war.
I was born into it, battle-born, covered in blood.
The blood was not mine, yet I was covered in it.
I taste its metal, feel its warmth.
It soaks my hair, falls from it, into my eyes, coloring them blood-red.
It blinds me, burns my eyes, and blood-shot they stare blindly out onto the battlefield.
I hear the beat,
thum, da-dum, da dum, thum, da-dum, da dum
I hear the beat of my blood, a high pitch, barely perceivable.
The blood was passed down to me, from my mother, for I come from a long line, all battle-born.
With every pass of blood, the battlefield changed, but the war never ceased, no matter how many battles wer