My breath shaken and heavy

My bones feel weighted down and free at the same time

I managed to break the ball and chain

Though it costs me more than humane ways

The bells clang and boom behind me

But it’s all around me, in my ears, in my heart

I run from the skeletons and ghouls

They are coming for me, I must hide

They say I must die and stay dead

“No one is to escape the City of Death”

But I run, I cannot accept death

I have so much to still live for

I must go back to them

I can’t let them mourn over me when I’m still fighting

I’m still trying so don’t walk away while I’m running

I feel as if I cannot breathe

The closer I get the more my body grows back

The blood and muscle start to cover these brittle bones

I’m coming just wait for me

Here come the horses and the men on fire with rage

They say I cannot run away

If you die you must stay dead

“No one is to escape the City of Death”

You won’t catch me, I am not weak

All those lost souls and ruined faces

They gave up because they saw no reason to run

Who would wait for them?

Who would wait for me?

I have faith

Lord help me so I can breathe

My skin crawling back onto me

My feet getting cut and scarred

They run around me throwing chains with hooks

It pierces my skin and makes me scream in agony

I’m so close, I can see the river just ahead

It carries their voices of pain and grief

“No one is to escape the City of Death”

Then I am no one

I scream as I pull the hooks out of my skin

Limply running towards the river

I take quarter breaths then half

I’m a breath away

I feel a slash across my back, I gasp

And fall into the river

They glare at me and turn away

I take a breath

“No one escaped the City of Death”