Death Be Written Upon Our Feet

shadows clinch their fist
and grit their teeth

Gray Ghost is no longer free
to move beyond these prison walls

where death be written
upon the soles of our feet

thus, we march toward the 
dark gate door that swings the axe

until death is written upon our feet
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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