WEEK 11 PICTURE CHALLENGE:

[Inno]

[Universe]

The Last Hangman

Every battle waged is war in hell, it's sad but I'm too old to tell
I can't follow in my own footsteps when I'm a shadow of my former self
Under a tragic and sordid spell, imagine what it takes to sort it out
I give you enough rope... You know the rest, even the hangman's born with doubts
All those words misspelled... Blank lines beneath with no letters in them
Everytime you'd guess wrong I'd have to add another limb in
Eventually the stickman was a victim, no loopholes involved
You think it's odd, I get it... But I was just doing my job
The uneducated and foolish dropped, others stay intact, no regrets
But they all broke a sweat, thinking they should've played tic tac toe instead
Yet every once in awhile they guessed correct, and the stickman lived
The game to you is my life.. I admit it felt good to give back his
I'm the Godfather of the guessing game, with still no kids to love yet
I made your life a tight rope walk, so better not kick the bucket
Your life hangs in the balance, don't question how much gas is still in the tank
Just vanish without a trace or pick a letter and fill in the blanks
Then just disappear into the rank and file, I hope you're sure of that win
Because every time I think I'm out... They pull me back in.

Now where was I?

Oh yes, let's begin...

[Candy]

The Shadow Of The Day
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Adopted by right of passage, passive
Plucked like a radish and then rubbished
With my cabbage collapsing by carrots
Trash bin talking traveled like tarrots
A hermit packing faggots hopping
Cloaked in frozen moments still copping
Medication aired like they can cure
My cancer with this dance of answer, sure
Sticky fingers and warriors pouring
Poor this morning yet i'm just snoring
Telling my story approaching
Forward momentum projecting cap soaked in
Hemoglobin of foreign to fiction
Goblins jogging with jokes of friction
Pegasus's and Unicorns moving by eye
Of the storm, storing nay pouring pay
Wave after wave breaks until 'morrow shades
Paved by gods, by the sky bathed in faced
Its shadow as mine collecting crossroads
Came to when i felt like nigger hung by lost/told
My automatic reaction was to strum
Its air 'til the devil speaks in humms
Then rest my feet

[Adverse]

So I guess yesterday you decided this life's not worth living...
All I got to remember you by is darkened streaks on the bathtub forever dyed crimson
Ash residue from your last cigarette drowning in the bloody waters
A barbaric ending, like something out of an Anne Rice novel your favorite author
All I feel is anxiety kicking cans in the pit of my stomach..
As I think of that last breathe leave your rosy lips...can we switch up the subject!?
I've punched these walls until these swollen fists stopped screaming your name
I bet you neglected the falling dominos and how you'd inflict hurt while releasing your pain
I've dug my knees into the asphalt and asked god a thousand questions
Tears pelting the ground like rain, irises drowning and clouding my perception
My black suit, contrasted by the single red rose that I laid upon your grave
One look at it and I have to swim to shore submerged in the blood of your gushin veins

At your funeral I couldn't help but curse you, for your cowardice way of hurtin' me
Instead of standing on your own two and carrying yourself, now I have to drag your burden
Behind me for eternity

[Johnny 6 feet]

Hidden Message

She lived through the wars, sweated and toiled in the fields
Held a dozen grandchildren, forged a will stronger than steel
Every year brought another challenge, poverty ran rampant
Searching for food like scavenger hunts but her spirits never dampened
All her children grew to marry, happy days could last forever
Lost in the sands of time and a sudden change of weather
Revolution was coming and the future waits for no man
Each passing day turned her home's freedoms into nomads
After the red flag was lifted many bodies were dropped
Down into shallow graves, unmarked burial plots
You'd think her heart would burst after her first child disappeared
Down the rabbit hole of grief to a wonderland of worst fears
Even though her life was hardship and her steps were growing heavy
After all the Commie nightmare her iron will remained steady
Don't you think it's damn time she had some rest already??

[Inno]

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