Condemnation

Binding, bloodied chains entrap my soul, As pain surges through my body His face is all I can see, The cold, ice blue eyes that burn into mine And his grim, somber expression Conceals the terror, that so openly shows on my own Bitter sweet sorrow lingers in the air But his voice joins the others As they condemn me, and his hands Bind me in chains Cutting my very heart and soul Into a million pieces He knows the truth, yet he binds and traps me In my pain The words of the guilty become as wounds And the tears that fall, Become as crimson drops of blood Flowing from my body And falling onto the granite stones His resounding words rip out my heart, And chafe my soul But as my pain drowns out The sound of painful accusations I surrender to death And take his ashen hands, Following him into the unknown