Guillotine

"All through this space of time
there were other echoes menacing,
from a distance
in the corner,
they have an awful sound
uncertain chorus of no consequence,
only a warning
of the true storm forming,
it is a hard day
straight and strong and narrow,
it is a hard way
confident in your conscience,
resolute in your innocent deceit
no thought to you next move -
remember the people you meet
on your way to the guillotine.

A troubled shroud it calls out loud
amidst the music and the singing,
it is ignored
by the guilty ones,
condescend to turn around
deduce the nature of this conversation,
try to remember
what you once were,
it is a hard day
straight and strong and narrow,
it is a hard way
confident in your conscience,
resolute in your innocent deceit
no thought to you next move -
remember the people you meet
on your way to the guillotine,
on your way to the guillotine."

Still one of my favourite songs that I wrote.

Paul Kimball