{"sf1_id":1198868,"sf2_id":"GnDOBPjm","title":"Zeta","author":"zetasyanthis","words":223,"posted_at":"2017-06-21T05:27:00.000Z","tags":["Love","Pain","Poem"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1198868-zeta","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/GnDOBPjm","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/34/87/3487bd1c-078d-44da-98e9-1cfd4279e2e6","description":"#9 of Poems\n\nI wrote this sort of accidentally, but my heart spoke, and I will always listen.","content":"My name... is Zeta.  \nI'm not the same as most.  \nI've always been a little bit... /different/.  \nI've always been a little bit... /strange/.  \nNobody knows what to make of me, least of all myself,  \nand nobody knows how I die.\n\n\\\u003ca pause\\\u003e\n\nMany have tried to slash my throat  \nto bleed me dry as bone.\n\nMany have pierced, ripped out their spears  \nas I but scream and moan.\n\nMany have come to hear my cries,  \nto take their bloody turn.\n\nMany have come to try to end this dragon  \nwho will not burn.\n\nMy scars, beyond those mortal men  \never had right to cast,  \nhave yet not hardened my dark heart.  \nMy light in it holds fast.\n\nI know they come because they fear,  \nthey fear the wrath they hold,  \nthe hate, disgust, they hold for me  \nbut which rips /their/ dark hearts cold.\n\nI know their pain; I've felt it too.  \nI've lived as they do now,  \nAnd though they ever strike at me  \nI've lived and live through /all/.\n\n\\\u003ca pause\\\u003e\n\nSome call me a sorceress,  \nSome call me a mage.  \nWhoever I am... /Whatever/ I am, I chose the road I walk.  \nI have chosen to heal,  \nto die as I see fit,  \nand so I stand,  \na silent beacon against the night,  \na candle held... and lit.\n\n\\\u003cfin\\\u003e\n\n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Poems","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1104791-shield-of-the-west.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1225979-defeat-is-not-surrender.json"}}