Smoking Gun

Evil is replaced by the beauty that remains

I shift my paradigm on a drop of a dime

Just to rewind the time but I’m a second too late

She lifts her harm grasps her hand around the barrel,

Finger on the trigger and she states:

Forgive me heavenly father, for I have misbehaved

I didn’t love him, and I truly wanted to wait

But as the world rotates a little faster, each and every day

I lost touch of its orbit and he made be pay

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Paralyzed by indecision; to catch the bullet

Planned for incision to block out her vision

Or, watch a beautiful creature fall before the ashes

As her body crashed emotionless before my feet

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Her arm tightens up and her bottom lip quivers

Believes that she’s a sinner so she proceeds to execute the endeavor

A single tear falls on the cracked rooftop, beaten down by rays of sun

Barren, cold, and futile, like a battle that cant be won

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Just an hour ago I was walking down the street

Morning coffee smile and the wind behind my feet

I tense my legs in runners pose, but my efforts are muffled

By the subtle motion of a finger stroke

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Smoke drifts soddenly out of the barrel,

a heat wave rises even with the horizon

Another wasted life, that was sure to peril

Fallen victim to the darkness of the world in which we live in.

12 years old could barely ride her bike or date

Stole a gun from her step-father

The same one he uses against her on the night she was raped