At The Edge

In these burdened moments, caught in inexperience

The world goes out of focus

Sweat pours down his eyes but he's too scared to notice

In these burdened minutes, presented with the source of my pain

Growing vengeful and livid

A man once respected belied and rejected

But through this immortal lens

A mortal cries out

His world on her depends

The boy in the scope of the beast cocks, back, and defends

Let now the bell toll

Let all who stands before me hear it ringing

Join me or die

Let curtains close on this inevitable end

Find your army

Choose your allegiance

Now shall you pray for forgiveness, child of innocence

If not saved by ignorance

I would strike you down with God as my witness

Your freedom relies on my charity

Your right to live is contingent on clarity

Now rub the pane gently

Define your fidelity

Let now the bell toll

Let all who stands before me hear it ringing

Join me or die

Let curtains close on this inevitable end

That night we lay wide awake

The backseat keeps ur secret safe

The glory of the mighty spell

The stars shone bright before they fell

You can't tell me I was wrong

You can't keep me strung along

You were everything but everything's long gone

That morning made fears alive

I believed in words contrived

My tired eyes, betrayed

Symptomatic of the end of days

You can't tell me I was wrong

You can't keep me strung along

You were everything but everything's long gone

If the first shot missed his heart, and the second never fired

Is the deed left undone?

If given this last chance to transform your regret

Would you pick up your gun?

Go now, forward to the end

We all on us now depend

The ends will justify the means

Though such justice futile leans

Find strength to tear your world apart

Retrieve the mirror from your heart

Go then, to the edge, alone

Make the jagged coast its home

The trail of men whose bodies line

This boulevard of my design

Their bones are scattered, clothes are torn

With rats and gnats they are adorned

I am blameless, I stayed true

To nature's cruel intent for you

Not guilty for the man I'll kill

The predator predates me still

I jog down the night-deadened alleys where no one can hear me

Vacant lots and fragrant bars

I can sense I'm not alone

A stirring in the alcove interrupts my shortcut home

Enter the vagrant

Though my mind erased his face

He cackles ironically, Caesar, sans time and place

Surrounded by the remnants of his childhood

Colored bricks of plastic, covered box of sand

I discovered the boy rocking gently with the mirror in his frightened hands

Daring not to stare it in the eyes for what lies there is scared and scarred as him

Quaking in the corner seeing all his features bordered by a frame of sin

I will guide him to the edge

He will see his fears alive

How far we are we are from home

From home for someone

For someone to call someone to call our own

Someone to call

With a swift and single motion, the boy cocks back and throws

The man nor boy will notice how the golden remnant glows

The jagged rocks below them merge the mirror with the land

The ocean scatters bits of it and mixes them with sand