Edward Elric & the Choice to be Human

Always seeking the inescapable:
that ambition to be greater
than the combined mistakes
of your burdened past.

It will not matter to the world
that you hold true to goodness
yet even so you cling to humanity
as it were the talisman granting you
the power to rise above and
Create new hope,
giving sacrifice equal to your gain.

Reap redemption where previously
there had been sown the seed of pernicious
righteousness and self-mutilation
yet grows instead a wondrous bloom -
fragrant with the promise of a different outcome
than what you deserve.
Is that not what we all and each yearn for ?