Tiger Tiger

The sun flickers through sheets
Of glass and steel, dazzling passersby
We get lost in it
Pretty lies have made fools of us all

Heated streets breathe
A sigh into the night
My step's echoes cling tight
Worn down but I
See no end in sight

Street lights blink off
As windows turn black
A veil of obscurity foreshadows anarchy
Silhouettes lit
As gunshots click clack
Heart heaving in my chest, these deeds have ruined me

I find her eyes
Three feet off the ground
Green flames confronting me, holding me, judging me
Night closes in
The wolves at my back
So tired, so selfishly I tore her from the scene

With her
Hand lost in mine
She might in time
Wash my conscience clean.
It's what I've hoped for
But after fateful days
I could run no more
Through summer's growing haze

Not lightly do the winds change
At the whim of the coming storm, we brace for rain
And this time I act alone, un-brave
For our peace they shall know pain

But it's here we parted
Her lightness like wings in my arms
She did fade away

After all I've seen
I know the tiger made me
And knowing you I knew peace
But this dread machine
Will cleave from them my payment
The score settled, the slate wiped clean

I greet the dawn
Head facing the clouds
Reflections of innocence, action and consequence
Scream my throat raw
Drenched in the sound
Pleading for a life less hopeless and pathetic

Pleading for a life less jaded and serpentine
Pleading for a life less cursed and unaccomplished
Pleading for common sense, logic and empathy
Pleading to escape this fucking insanity