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The Bullet Lodged

Etched in my heart As well as the grave Lies the heart of my old man Whom I unfortunately could not save It started off as a bond with my old man Driving through the country road in our old minivan We stopped along the track As the light turned red A bullet was fired And I thought I was dead A small crack emerged in the windshield Equally shattered my heart couldn't yield I saw my old man Slumped in his seat I cried out my eyes Screaming why couldn't have it been me I saw the killer whose smile couldn't hide The evil satanist lust who stopped our ride My father was my hero but here he was slumped dead My mind couldn't comprehend the one fatality crash As a single drop of glass dropped on the dash The allusion of life makes us stop And rattle our fist as reality fires Hopeless I am a mere month later sitting in a jail for the revenge of my father Justice came to him but it also came for me Tell God I said hello As I'm hanging from a tree

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