A sentinel guards a stone, and does not question it. Until now. |
A lone sentinel wanders by Under the cloudless, moonlit sky He guards a nearby marble stone And there he stays, always alone His one true duty he does not defy It's not his place to question why And so he guards the obelisk Never to have taken risk He does not ever leave its side His master's wish, he must abide But then the sentinel hears a cry "Everything you know is a lie" The sentinel hears but does not listen For he cannot hear without permission His master's will is all that matters But still he turns, and his armor clatters He sees the owner of the voice And for the first time he faces a choice Should he listen to the speaker? The decision leaves his mind much weaker And when the voice calls out again He listens intently, and the words begin “Everything you know is a lie” The sentinel lowers the gaze of his eye To the man who waits so far below The rocky hill and fallen snow A lone sentinel, much like him Looks back, with his face contorted in a grin “Why do you wait?” the second sentinel cries An amused look waits in his eyes The shocked sentinel stands stock still “Because it is the master’s will” But the second sentinel just laughs aloud At the statement the first had said so proud The first sentinel does not understand He closes his fist, and clenches his hand He raises his voice noticeably “Why do you not wait with me?” “The master is gone, the master is dead!” The second says to the first one’s dread “All of us left long ago, And only you remain here so.” The sentinel slowly sees the truth The lonely hill is quite the proof The sentinels that once guarded the hill Had turned from their master’s will “Where have they gone?” the first sentinel cries “To a better place.” The second replies “Follow me, I’ll show you where.” But all the first can do is stare For the second sentinel begins to fade And still alone the first one stays The sentinel stares at the spot again Where the second had disappeared, and then He stares up at the moonlit sky And for once he chooses to defy The words echo around him again And soon he can no longer hold them in He screams into the night a mournful cry “Everything I know is a lie” He chooses to walk from the stone And make a future all his own He walks slowly from the obelisk Finally ready to take the risk But something happens he cannot foresee An irreparable tragedy As he walks from the rocky hill Defying his very master’s will The marble stone breaks away And crushes him ‘neath its stony ray And the place where the sentinel once had stood Had escaped the obelisk’s heavy hood What caused this to happen at all? Did the master will this rock to fall? Or was it purely coincidence Which brought about such an instance? The truth lies beyond our eye So who are we to question why? The marble stone still marks the crypt Of the sentinel whose life it ripped From the rocky, lonely hill Where a man once stood against his will |