The Tower

My human frailty and weakness confronts temptation, and without grace, I would fall to the tower of despair.

The Tower

Off in the distance

What's that I see

Through the mist

I know I should flee

   I feel the world

   And its evil stain

   Is there a salvation

   For tiny me to gain

     The tower so tall

     Yes, it beckons me

     Black and cold

     With an eye to see

       Reason and justice

       Seem to fail

       Oh! How the tower

       Makes them pale

         The sun at my back

         Grows my shadow long

         Towards the tower shade

         That swears I belong

            Wine and laughter

            Song and dance

            Of these things

            The tower does perchance

               The eye that sees

               Knows I am weak

               It hurls the answers

               It knows I seek

                  Through the dark wood

                  I find the gate

                  Should I step through

                  And seal my fate

                    The truth is a lie

                    And the smile a frown

                    In that world

                    that lives upside down

        From high above

        I hear a song

        and sweet is its sound

        A warning of something wrong

I heed the verse

And turn my face

I run and run

Away from that place

Author's Note

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