You weren’t the Hero.
I was looking for You.
Didn’t risk, wouldn’t fight. Not once.
You tried.
Just ran. (Means lied.)
I was my Own.
Hero risked everything. (Or tried.)
Naked, baring.
Soul, vulnerable.
Was I?
You, stabbed.
Me, once then, fled.
I cried.
You bled.
Yet:
Still, breathing,
Still, fighting,
Still, rising.
Who won this Battle?
Not I.
(Not-I.)