ATONEMENT

A risk too ominous to bare

With fierce, poetic adventure

He leapt in a far-away woodland

With imperial reign

To salvage what he had left

Of his bequest

Of disposable women

Forlorn and desolate

He escapes the repercussion

Of defective compromise

Flawed and inadequate

In his atonement

That he seeks redemption

In the loins of the broken-hearted