Searching But Finding Nothing

I travel not to distant shores  
My home is close at bay 
My manners though rude are mine alone 
What more can this perfect man say? 
Perfect you laugh, you scoundrel and pest!  
Why beats thou your breast in haste? 
A bullet from my loaded pistol 
Will strike and you’ll be waste 
Waste that is thrown into the river 
And carried down yon way 
Perhaps the buzzards wait my friend 
As you’ve seen your final day 
A beast I’m called by many men 
But they cower and stand not and fight 
They do their bidding with other souls 
And maneuver in the darkness of night 
But how is it that you can’t find me? 
Though your party has searched many a year 
They go not close to my habitat 
Because in their hearts they really fear 
Yes, you talk but spineless you really are 
As still I ride and watch many fall 
Those cowards, those with no spine 
Are found when winter waters thaw 
You’re trembling, yes you’re trembling 
And what’s that? You’re begging now? 
And to think you used words differently 
While laying with that old sow 
You told her you would have my tongue 
All fried and ready to eat 
But now you’re pissing in your pants 
And it runs down past your feet 
Arise you coward and die like a man 
Or I’ll drag your death out real slow 
It matters not to me big boy 
As tonight your blood will flow

Copyright © | Year Posted 2014



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