Me

A soul forgotten
Last thoughts long past
Sole glints of hate within my eye
Too many promises broken
So too are hearts run through
As I leave my demons to bleed and die

The person I have always been
From my first breath 'til my last
Chained within, hid in dark by will and want
A guise to maintain
A lie to me, a man to you
Though still he fights, recalcitrant

A monster in a world of men
Held tight by fear's iron ballast
Ripping, fighting, yearning to be free
At solemn temple, at muddied fane
He begs me to know that what's true
Yet I proclaim this beast is apart from me

I bind him tight
Not set him free
He bleeds and cries as I knock him down
Hold him beneath waters in fright
As he fights to breathe
And though I try, he will not drown

In time I realized that he's right
This ghastly beast is part of me
I saw him then, though with contempt
And then will all my earthly might
I set him free, from his prison inside of me
His face so wrathful, as out he limped

Quick to strike
To wound and hurt
He's here now, a snake uncoiled
But now I see, though so warlike
I can quench the fire, before I'm burnt
And knowing his wiles, his plots are foiled

It certainly is, thank you.

I consider it a ballad, but I'm no poet, just an angsty college student, so there's a fair chance I'm wrong