All the Same

All the Same - Zack Leeb

It’s closer every day

The patterns crystallize

No refuge from the winds—

Their whispers terrorize

My deeds of lesser days

Have come to weaponize

My sins have turned their blades

Upon my throne of lies

In the night I flee my land

To shed this sullied name

Flying faster, farther still

My shoulders hung with shame

At dawn I stumble on my pride

The serpent’s fangs are bared

Out from sight not far behind

It takes me unprepared

You could count my sins with the stars in the sky

And you wouldn’t stop counting ‘til the day that you die

You could drown my faults ‘neath the waves of the sea

But they’d still crawl back to reside within me

In the night upon the shore

Beside the lord of Rome

Caligula, I call on thee:

I thrash the surf alone!