Fight The Dawn

An Abstract Legacy

I should have listened
To that shadowed prophet
Speaking the truest wisdom
Only found on the other side
And returned home
With all my men
Reuniting deserted families

Trading the blindness
I inflicted to the
Single eye of that
Son of the sea
For the blindness
Of Pride
That took both
Of mine

If I could but return
From these hallowed halls
I would lose it all
All the glory and
Immortality gained
For just a chance
To touch your skin
Breathe in the life of
My two sons
To sit blinded
To perpetuity
For a fullness
Of a life lived

That is the curse of the living
To never learn from the dead

So now, I wait
With ease on
These black banks
Refusing to cross with Charon
Those darkened sea foam waters
Until I am joined
By my two Sons
Serving time until
You both grow old

You may hate me
For as long as you live
But I will use all
Of eternity to show you
The love you deserved
In the time I made lost

So now, I wait

In the eyes of men
A lifetime
In the eyes of gods
An exhale