Battle - drama

Based On: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

There's a ringing in my ears from when you called the shots

I play it over in my mind, it's corrupted all my thoughts

Everlasting peace didn't last very long

Cold but undeniable heat

Towards the bullets you fired into my arm

I never backed out of battles with you

I thought it was turbulence of something new

I never realised it was all just for show

You might have won this battle

But I'll win the war

I commanded all the damage to turn into gold

I put out all your fires with my downpour

I never knew who I was fighting for

You might have won this battle

But I'll win the war

There's beds full of people who were brave enough to shield themselves

I'm the lone war nurse tending to their wounds, because no one knows best

Everlasting peace didn't last very long

Warm but what an undeniable cold

Hearted man you've become

I never backed out of battles with you

I thought it was turbulence of something new

I never realised it was all just for show

You might have won this battle

But I'll win the war

I commanded all the damage to turn into gold

I put out all your fires with my downpour

I never knew who I was fighting for

You might have won this battle

But I'll win the war

I chose to leave you but you chose to leave me first

I chose to fix broken bridges and redo all my stitches

I chose to move on and become indifferent

Because closure doesn't always need a conversation

Loaded on laudanum

I showed up with a knife

I take back what I said about prejudice

I was surrounded on all sides in a gunfight

For every ounce of soul I gave you

You gave me nothing at all

Now you expect me to sacrifice myself

In the name of the law

I never backed out of battles with you

I thought it was turbulence of something new

I never realised it was all just for show

You might have won this battle

But I'll win the war

I commanded all the damage to turn into gold

I put out all your fires with my downpour

I never knew who I was fighting for

You might have won this battle

But I'll win the war. 

-Neha Bhende