I am one

Standing proud

I am one



I bled through every pore of my being

Automaton, unfeeling

Aurora borealis of agony

The white hot fires of misery



I am one

Standing alone 

I am one

Standing proud



I tasted your sweet tears 

Drank them down and spat them out 

And receiving your weak pity 

Threw back my head and laughed aloud



Defences stripped, fibre by fibre

Raw exposed oozing meat 

Slowly being cauterised 

By the salty lash

Of bitter defeat



I've been basted

On the spits of hell 

Like an angel

I rose and fell



I am one

Standing alone 

I am one

Standing proud