XI

You're my greatest enemy

Yet I can never drift

My dreams away from you

Even in a reality

where I have a crown

You always come

To take it from me

Your image, your ideals

They've seeded into mine

I've slain my desire

To become something greater

For you've put me in my place

You've shown me who I am

Through blood and ash

Burning holes into my skin

Cutting scars over them

My cage is my body

I'm frozen in place

Unwilling to move

without your command

You own me

But not her.