Hero

I am Slasher Of Monsters stock-in-trade My sword Kram, is double edged death One horror burrowed deep in me at birth With poison of a thousand thousand Hydras To kill it I must kill myself But I am Slasher Of Monsters stock-in-trade I persevere in trial Another felled me from the heavens A three eyed beast with many Buddha arms I was immortal, Homeric in youth as great Hercules Deeply wounded I fended off the fiend I am Slasher of Monsters stock-in-trade I will live One clawed from Dante’s seventh circle A beast of horrible hunger, spitting blood It’s neck hung with hearts of men Deeply wounded I almost died Though I am Slasher Of Monsters stock-in-trade It still lives Another creature came in costume To consume my very essence, ugly Behind masks of wanton beauty (I never feared Medusa's snakes, the thing uses mirrors) Deeply wounded I fought to free myself I killed it yet another reared it’s mask I am Slasher Of Monsters stock-in-trade I will kill them all I have fought many, many more One burrowed deep in earth Atropos atop a thousand thousand strings Hunts me with blood rusted blade I cannot kill her even if I kill myself But I am Slasher Of Monsters stock-in-trade I live with open cuts unhealed My sword Kram, is double edged death Brighter than a hundred suns Hidden in sheath of ancient weave I care not I am Slasher Of Monsters stock-in-trade