Life Debt (Poem)

Sword sharpened

Thoughts of vengeance

Visions of blood and fear

My one and only

My woman dead too

Why take away those years

To teach a lesson

Pay your taxes

Or off with your head they say

You owe for your life

For it is not free

Caught within shackles as slaves

But they will go 

Unpaid again

Taunting to draw them close

Come within range

I'm ready this time

The beast within me arose

I jumped out at them

Horse bleeding, he falls

Barely enough time for the deed

The men they closed in

My sword in his throat

He paid the price for his greed