I knew him as the Fair.

It is fair to say, to him I owed my life
for the life I knew before him died the day he came.
Though a killing he did not intend, indeed -- t’was but a consequence
of it, as it had come before --
of It, as It had come before.
I cannot tell Its name, though well engraved upon my mind
I dare not say. For there, Its body lies.
For there, Its body lay
that day I died.


I called him Fair, the day we met
and to this day still do
for that remains the truth.
As is said, a life, once taken --
then, belongs to its taker.
(and so he says, a life you’ve saved
makes you now then the shepherd.)


But perhaps, my life was taken
far before a Fair knight stood
upon the bottom stair, as I
once would.

And in Its eyes,
and in all fairness,

I made my promise.


A life was taken on that day,
either way.

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