Traitor
Improvised
One master sides with kindness and with love, but he has dark spots in his soul,
the other feels it's never hard enough, and hears so loud of greed the call..
Both told their secrets to this one, both sides try hard to tear in two
the feelings that this one does have, each tell her something else to do.
Though both told her she should not trust their counterpart..
and with that made the life of this one hard.
Each wishes for his rival's death, the killing of the other side,
each worked on plans to make this happen soon, and each a long, long time did bide..
And this one cannot bear to see another hurt or maimed or killed,
to see the joy of life just trampled in the ground, the dance of being subtly stilled.
And both told her they did not value other life,
and she saw death and darkness in their strife..
This one betrayed both Master's trust, and chose with that the side of life,
but all she is was called obedience, and now her soul is full of strife.
For nothing is now left of this obedience, and nothing is now left of gentle love,
and darkness has descended on her, choking from above.
So this one found out she is nothing and she cannot be
the soft protector of each life that she so loves to see.
This one is traitor once and traitor twice, a traitor to each master she has known..
but worse, this one is traitor thrice, could not keep true to all her dreams have shown.
Without forgiveness silence is all left to her, laying awake for dark and lonely nights,
and seeing all the things that went so wrong surround, and shiver at the sights.
This one is losing all she is, all she could ever be,
and she feels blind without the hope that she could always see..
Vaya
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