Waking up, Worthless

A price has been put
Upon my head
One symbolized by
Emptiness...

What have I awakened to,
But a nightmare worse than those
which wreaked havoc
upon my dreams.

Loyalties fade as the body weakens...
No one wants a broken hero...
I don't want to be broken,
I don't want to be a hero
I wish I'd never been thought, or thought of myself as,
some kind of hero
Then I'd have lost
nothing...

I'd have lost my freedom
I'd have lost my mind
I'd have lost years
I'd have lost memories...
Or, perhaps, I'd have lost nothing at all-

But losing honor,
perhaps
Hurts far worse than the
other
wounds...

Deepening the loss
of self.