There’s a 4-chamber loaded gun in my chest,
And with each two-tone squeeze,
It threatens to paint the town me.
Beat after beat,
It ends in an impotent whimper—
A muzzled dog,
Never catching the rabbit.
It’s the fear we love:
Hands clasped around our throats,
Each thump a muscle twitch tighter—
A race of air versus pleasure,
Nooses of arteries and veins
Hanging from our own lifeblood,
Swaying in the wind of each chamber’s misfire.
Snub-nose barrel chest,
Each strike of the hammers on blanks
A beat against an ensnared drum.
Fire clots through your spiderweb.
Fulfill the destiny as the ticking time bomb—
Be the weapon you were meant to be.
A thousand-gun salute
For the fallen soldier firing squad.
Send your crimson rage deep into your host,
Burst floods into your dependence.
Fire blanks of misfortune.
It only takes one to hit.