Ashes and Dust

[Folian]

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Why was it that on that fateful day

I could not bring myself to lie?

No guilt plagued my heart

Nor was the blood upon my hands worth confessing

That bitch had it coming.

Not even Alexei could deny it.

Was it just my love for you that kept me from silence?

That piercing avaricious gaze?

Though would it not have been better if I had said naught?

For both of us?

No point in thinking about what could have been.

I did love you

Yet it did not stay your hand from the trigger.

No bullet may have made its mark--

But it surely did find its way to my heart.

...

And despite everything, he asks me to beg for forgiveness?

To lay and grovel like a dog?

I will make sure there is naught left of that family but ashes and dust.

Will you yet stand alongside them, Annie?