Given the Chance

Given the chance
I'd do it all again-
I'd relive the horror
and relish the memory...

licking it raw
as a dog licks its wounds,
savoring the bitter taste
and remembering oaths long sworn

I'd die for my father,
my mother, my clan,
I'd kill my brother if given the chance.

I'd slay the weasel
if the hounds would let me-
but speak softly
and wield steel behind your words.

Two blades flash in the setting sun
from two hearts an unquenchable pain has run
from one night two lives were forever condemned
and two live with only one purpose:

avenge.

Given the chance,
I'd kill Itachi.
Given the chance,
I'd destroy Sasuke.
Given the chance,
I'd allow myself to die
if I knew that it would save our souls.

But we were condemned to darkness and isolation long ago...

when a katana blade spilled blood
and a son destroyed his father.