The Blood & The Bones

he would tell me not to worry
as we waited each time
that when the call came
for the wings
to carry him over the water
he would leave the man he is behind
paused and poised
on the righter side
of humanity
and I would watch him begin
to settle in
reveling in the thoughts
of what was to come
embracing the warrior
like a long lost friend
as he would do
the necessary evils
instead of him
and in this departure
this divide
in this means to an end
the man he truly was
would survive

the blood
& the bones