I was sent to guard,
not to grieve.
But the battlefield doesn’t ask
what I was built for
it simply bleeds.
My wings, once light,
now heavy with ash,
each feather singed
by names I can’t forget.
I walk where prayers
don’t reach anymore,
where heaven’s silence
echoes louder than screams.
The sword was never mine to hold.
But when the sky closed,
I held it.
When the light fled,
I stayed.
Don’t call me holy.
Not here.
Not while I stand ankle-deep
in the end of things,
dragging a halo like a broken promise
through the dust of all I failed to save.
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