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RzfX

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The End of a Friend - Entry for Writer's Block (July - Aug)

Posted on Fri Jul 31, 2009 4:36 am

It was difficult to write a story with a Prodigal Son theme so I made it into a story-poem. There are a few lines later on that do not rhyme but that is to give emphasis on a particular event. Anyway, enough of my blabbering, hope you enjoy.

For the past, I had hoped to repent,
So much time, have I spent.
But by a year was I late,
All those seconds put to waste.
Perhaps you call this fate?

Each has a different story,
Some are blessed with clarity,
Some are just plain blurry.
All I ask is for some time
For I’d like to tell you mine.

Never will I forget the name,
That is Reverend James.
A man who was always in black,
On his word, he never did go back.
A father was he to me,
When I was abandoned at three.

I am called Tyler Grey.
It’s not the best, what can I say?
As a child, I was quite gullible,
But never was I inscrutable.

We stayed at a humble cathedral,
But I was not nervous at all.
There were so many like me.
An orphanage, would it seem.

I learned wrong from right.
And never got into a fight.
It was all thanks to the Reverend
This, I’ll remember to the end

But I was not the best at anything
For mediocrity was stalking
Oh, such effort I gave!
That excellence, I still crave.

In the wee hours of the night,
I would wake up with a fright.
The Reverend, I dreamt about
Telling me to get out and stay out

These wretched dreams,
They did not ever cease.
I wanted to run away,
For I was only getting in the way.
But that Reverend did not stop,
He kept pushing me to the top.

I looked up to that man
But nevertheless, I still ran
Out the cathedral I went
How far, I knew not to what extent.

I found myself a narrow passageway
That was hit by the sun’s rays
Yes it was bereft of darkness,
But I could not remove my sadness.

Three men looking for money,
They only saw me.
I never wanted to fight,
But I could not get out of sight.

To the Reverend, did I apologize,
But he would not hear me, did I realize.
One of the devils pulled out a knife
And so began the fight for my life

I tried to tell them that I had none,
But they insisted I hand over some.
These three could not see
A trivial matter was money.

The knife danced in the air gracefully,
It was beautifully deadly.
So I had to move cleverly.
With a sting, was the knife redirected,
Through the devil’s heart was it injected.
Off the blade tip, the blood dripped.
With shock was I paralyzed,
For I had not only fought, but killed.

It was much later that I realized,
Killing was the field in which I specialized.
Justice was what the Reverend desired.
And so, a group of do-gooders I joined.
Our task was to have crime “removed”
This choice may be despised,
But this is the way I lived.

So time went by in the blink of an eye.
Now, we were feared by crime.
We were the citizens’ allies.
Truly, we were the best, it was no lie.

Deep inside, I still cried.
I did my best, I really tried.
I could no longer keep up with this pace.
I finally decided to return to that place.

Here I stand, in front of the gates.
Over the years, it has kept its traits.
On the door did I knock,
I was only met with looks of shock.

The Reverend disappeared last year.
The children were all frozen with fear,
As the bullet stung him from the rear.
They cried ‘til their last tear.

Here was I in the city, everyone did I defend,
But the one who mattered most, my dearest friend…
I planned to stop killing and remain here in the end.
I only wish he had more time to spend.

For the past, I had hoped to repent,
So much time, have I spent.
But by a year was I late,
All those seconds put to waste.
This is my fate.

I just wanted to make that man proud…
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