"Love and Sacrifice"

Time ebbs away as my veins collapse,

I bleed from many hidden scars,

I was led by demons back to this place,

When I freed them from their bars,

In the dark I sit alone,

Invoke the ritual again,

Conjure the curse enslaving me,

I destroy what could have been,

Enduring that which brings me shame,

Desperate to forget what fuels my pain,

Candlelight waivers from my breath,

My eyes turn black as night,

Staring as the blood blooms out,

On a shirt that, once, was white,

In the distance, I hear a voice, it rises me out the fog,

Someone familiar comes my way,

I recognize,

His dark skin and eyes,

As my love who would not stay,

My brain begins to tingle as I taste what I have done,

He kneels when he hears me sigh,

Why has he come to my place of refuge,

The place I have chosen to die?

Without emotion he just watches me,

I wonder what he has come to see,

Why has he chosen this moment to be here,

As I am destroyed by my disease?

My eyes are getting heavy, I am slipping away,

I hear him shouting, although in vain,

Through the slitted orbs I can see his tears,

Falling as he screams my name,

My face is touched, his hand is gentle,

Yet, for me he has come too late,

My voice is thick as I whisper to him,

"I gave up everything for you to stay"

He takes my hand and kisses the fingers,

Of this woman he can not save,

In his mind he recalls my words,

Of how I would love him to the grave,

The night grows still as I fall limp,

Staring forever to the sky,

The time has come and he must choose,

He closes my dull dead eyes,

Sure and silent, his mind is made,

He now knows why he has come,

He stands as my lips turn blue,

He knows what must be done,

Bowing his head, he admits defeat,

Screaming, he rips his chest apart,

Proving his love while saving my life,

Selflessly he sacrifices the beat of his heart.