Perdition

This week, have another fanfiction poem! This one is inspired by the Soul Eater manga (not the anime) and the character of Justin Law.  It’s full of spoilers.

Perdition

I was born a guillotine.

I played the role of priest.

I made myself a Reaper’s scythe,

         but now I serve a beast.

They called me a prodigy.

My medium was death

and 99 demonic souls

         deprived of their last breath.

I’d paint the town a bloodshot red

when metal met cold stone.

I always worked to music,

         and I always worked alone.

Now I’m a blade and I’m a man

and so the Reaper said,

“Find the master of all madness.”

         But he found me instead.

His clowns think that they turned me,

that they forced the madness in,

but beneath this snow white collar

         I was always black with sin.

See, I once loved the god of death,

then a city on a hill,

then loved a demon in the moon.

         But I’ve always loved to kill.

So don’t call me traitor,

if that’s what you came to say.

With this symphony of madness

         I won’t hear you anyway.

Now come into my slaughterhouse

where unbowed heads will roll.

To those accursed 99,

         I’ll add just one more soul.

And if you look up as you die

you’ll see the blade’s descent.

The only unforgiven sin

         is I do not repent.