Sacrifice

Azure eyes and ruby lips
Skin torn off her fingertips
Golden locks and tattered dress
Nothing more, nothing less.
Dirt under her fingernails
Horrors that used to linger, pales.
Beaten down but standing strong
Brought back to life, a deed so wrong
A sacrifice, a cross to bear
A world to save, a will to care
Fires burning, cold as ice
Feelings grown that she despise
Violent shades of black and blue
Words spoken: 'I believe in you'
Cutting down to truth and bone
Both of them, as persons grown
Facing now the final trial
No time for games or for denial
'I love you' is spoken from the heart
Just moments before the lovers part
The world is safe from harm again
The enemy’s dead but so are friends
Life goes on, the highway’s open
Things turned out as they’d been hoping
Now she looks up to the skies
With ruby lips and azure eyes