Follow My Lead

Surviving War.

I prefer to stand

even pain can't dull the hand

from reaching out and changing life

taking in, the raging tide.

Forever i will march

through fields of murder

robbed of girth and toil

everlasting footprints

built on guns and rovers.

Show me a path

where righteousness will last

crude folly stains the broken grass

running over things that lasted minutes

now lay heaped and ruined in the past.

Unless i change my heart

and gird my spirit from the start

use my words and utter life into my bones

choose my destiny

reaching into the unknown

I let my mind escape

run like hell through this prison scape

break free of terrors left and right

careful not to trigger mines left from this fight

i run and don't surrender

Champion they say

i've only been blessed to see another day

scrapes and wounds cloaking my relief

Im set free from all the aches and grief

i am no winner

Just a survivor

adapting to all the chaos

breathing death without fear

remembering that life can be near

but not for me

No, i'm criminal to this crime

held by the fire in my heart

Vengeance spoke its utterance

and all thats left of all my greed,

i heard him say, "follow my lead"