First Blood

This was the night it learned my name…

GrebullG.

Basement breath, damp concrete, bulb swings slow like a hanging thought

Hands still clean, heart still human, or at least that’s what I taught

Rain taps Morse on the window frame, every drip says do it now

Knife feels heavier than guilt, metal hums, I don’t know how

He begged once—voice cracked thin, sounded like a memory

Sounded like the part of me I buried for serenity

I said nothing. Silence grew teeth, chewed the air till it bled

I watched myself split in two when I stepped inside his head

I felt the click behind my eyes

Something smiled when something died

FIRST BLOOD—hear it hit the floor

FIRST BLOOD—ain’t a man no more

FIRST BLOOD—felt the dark take hold

Name carved deep: GrebullG

Pulse in my ears like war drums lit, veins scream loud like feedback

Every swing rewrote the room, no rewind, no take-backs

Warmth on my hands, it wasn’t fear—it was relief that burned

Every rule I ever learned snapped clean when the blade turned

Eyes went glass, saw my face twice—one was calm, one was free

One was shaking, one was laughing at what I’d let me be

When the noise stopped, the world obeyed, quiet thick as tar

I stood taller in the silence, felt my soul scar hard

I didn’t run, I didn’t cry

I stood there while my mercy died

FIRST BLOOD—hear it hit the floor

FIRST BLOOD—ain’t a man no more

FIRST BLOOD—felt the dark take hold

Name carved deep: GrebullG

I washed my hands till the sink went red

But the stain crawled up into my head

He’s gone—but something stayed

A hunger learned… a debt got paid

Sirens sang a lullaby somewhere far from the truth

I practiced breathing over bodies, traded age for the proof

I didn’t feel like a monster—felt chosen, felt precise

Like the dark had been waiting for me to say yes twice

I stepped outside, rain baptized, every drop said begin

City lights bowed low that night—welcomed me in

FIRST BLOOD—city learned my sound

FIRST BLOOD—crown hit the ground

FIRST BLOOD—path sealed cold

Born in red: GrebullG

This was the first…

…and it never stopped.