For Absolution I Sing - SN fic - PG

[tigriswolf]

Title: For Absolution I Sing

Fandom: “Supernatural”

Disclaimer: not my character; written for fun. All poetry is mine.

Warnings: spoilers for “Folsom Prison Blues”

Pairings: mentions of non-incestuous het

Rating: PG

Wordcount: 280
Point of view: third

 

I take into my hands

The burden of your life

I choose to kill

And I choose those who stay alive

It is my right

And don’t you dare try to take it—

 

            She threw down the pen in disgust. The words just weren’t coming. Ever since she began her quest, the poetry flowed slower, harder—barely a trickle now.

            From the time she was a girl, the words appeared to her, easily and without effort. Had she wanted, she could have been world-famous by now, not some nurse in a backwater prison. 

            But instead… instead…

 

You took it all from me

Everything I could have been

You shattered my dreams upon rocks

And stole

 

            She tapped the pen on her desk, biting her lip. What was a good word?

Those bastards ruined it all, her life and her future and her hopes. Killed Danny the night before their wedding, raped her for hours—

            She shuddered and wrapped her arms around herself. 

 

Darling, I visit your grave in autumn,

watching the leaves fall.

I count each as it flutters to the ground,

remembering how we danced in the park

that day—you know. You spun me

and I laughed, and oh—

It was the best day of my life,

that morning you asked me

to be with you forever.

 

            She buried her head in her hands, no longer able to staunch the tears. “Danny,” she whispered, “forgive me.”

            She picked up the pen and scrawled across her poetry attempts,

 

Forgive me, love, for all I’ve done in your name.

Offer absolution, I beg you—

The blood I’ve spilt, the lives I’ve quenched,

The dreams I’ve drowned with such gentle poison—

In your name I’ve done this, all these things—

Forgive me—

Comments

[wildcatlizzie.livejournal.com]

Very nice POV!

[tigriswolf]

Thank you!