Valley of Cannons

Meeting the stares

The horde of faces

Search my brow for fear

Prisoner, captive

Bound by treason

My judgement is met with cheers

Trap door set before my feet

Life for death my willing trade

Trap door set before my feet

So let the hangman earn his wage…

Into the moonlight we proclaim

Our death is not in vain

We submit to be stripped

To the sound of cheers so deafening

In the valley of cannons

My enemies captured me and offered the greatest test

“Renounce your crusade

Or you will pay”

So I smile to noose caress

I rest in the drop and fall to ash

Return to the dust from which I came

Sink to the dirt in thankfulness

Cause we know we won’t remember…

this momentary pain