Departure

One year before the day she swore to me she knew exactly how this would end

You left them once before

And now you've found a reason to finish what you've started

The forfeit of a barren path, this is a death march, an escape from it all

The final defiant act of a broken man

A losing struggle now an absence embraced

Guilt draped like a cross around your neck

Too proud to face the burden you'll become

Words scrawled across a page

Close the door and leave it all behind

A father, a son, you were known by many names

Will they be remembered as your breathing departs?

A funeral call to those who morn this figure withered by the rain

The skies grey, downpour above his plot of freshly carved earth

A fitting epitaph if ever there was

The shot rang out, echoes shattered off the wall

The shot rang out, the shot rang out

Echoes shattered off the wall, the shot rang out

And to this day I still grieve for her

Now haunted forever by that sound