Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Truth

A fool I’ve been...

Living out this life of mine...

Dreaming of the unknown future that is supposed to cross my path...

Seeking out fortune and power, wisdom and faith...

The never ending struggle against brother fate...

The story goes on day after day...

And as the pages continue to turn...

The more I see how this world truly is...

The truth has lost meaning in this existence...

How is it that an man such as I...

Built of dignity and pride...

On honesty and virtue...

How is it that I must fall?

Every fool on this earth has succumbed to fate...

Has tasted corruption...

Has Sinned...

But when the hour of judgment comes upon me...

And despite my sins I speak the truth...

It is I who is cast guilty in the name of fate...

I am the one to fall...

Naïve in the shifting winds of the world...

Honest too the ends of the earth...

Foolish beyond any man before me...

Is this another lesson to be learned?

Or does the same old story go on and on and on...?

A lesson in a futile struggle...

Such promise I had in the good old days...

Such ambition, such dedication...

Only to be snuffed out by the fate...

But when the dusk clears, and the verdict made...

It is I to blame...

It is I who cursed my self...

It is I who pleaded guilty...

Honesty...

Truth...

Virtue...

Even in the eyes of corruption

In Vice...

In Sin...

I stand tall to how I have grown to be...

And this is not a strength...

But a downfall...

I’ll be honest until the day I no longer walk this earth...

I’ll be truthful beyond the day that I am left behind...

I’ll be a good man... even when I am alone and have no one left in this world...

And now I stand at a crossroads...

To which not even I know the way to go...

On one hand, lies the path I’ve walked...

With friend and foe alike....

But that path brings me back to the choices I’ve made...

And The black stain that shall follow me through the ages...

With no change in sight..

And even if this is the path I choose...

I know not if I can even return...

And on the other side...

Lies the unknown world...

Freedom from that which has given me some

And taken so much more...

To Gather my pride and walk away...

To begin another search for prosperity...

Another Gap in my road to salvation

And I stand here in the middle...

Lost beyond all reconciliation...

With time as my only redeemer

With time as my only escape...

I look upon my reflection...

And spit upon the image that I have become...

I’ve blackened my own name...

I’ve made my choices...

And now I’ve paid the price...

When lies would have set me free...

The truth has damned me...

Yet again

Yet again...

Yet again...