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

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