Gauntlet Of Lovers

Into this passage
Treading this path
From flower to flower
Beheading with wrath
Young prayers uprooted
In soil raped at night
My will has polluted
These beings of light

With nothing held sacred
Indulgence in sight
Leaflets stripped naked
Stained by my bite

A gauntlet of lovers
Was shaped by my deeds
Defined by my memories
Abused by my needs

One after another
They've taken my bait
But I am the punished
Thus is my fate
For each sapling severed
I'll take one more cut
When forests are burning
All gates will be shut

What feels like a palace
Is merely a jail
By acts that look callous
I'll end this betrayal

And so
I must go
Through the thorns
And the blows

This gauntlet of lovers
Seems without end
But I shall endure it
This is no lament.