Cool perspective to take, and I like the overall message. Still, I thought the last sentence didn’t fit the rest of the feeling. The rest seems to be sort of a mournful consideration of its own role in violence, or maybe that’s just how I read it.

Awesome, actually! I really like this, the perspective of the mythical, magical sword, endowed with a sense of purpose and a willingness to work towards that purpose with imperfect tools, even though the goal is unattainable. It is the effort that counts, which I believe is the moral lesson you were trying to get across?