The red lion
Captured for your belief
Thrown into hell,A prison cell.
Whereby you can\'t even see a shimmer of light
The only light you will see
are the lights that haunt you every day and every night.
The lights in people eyes when they are
desperately pleading for their life
Hoping for a miracle, a way out.
A shadow of humanity races across the wall
as the lights in prisoners eyes fade away,
and their last breath gets taken
by the merciless captors that make you quiver in your skin
as you hear footsteps outside the cell
There\'s nowhere to hide.
That crane you once drove around the city
has become a tool of lynching.
The devil screaming louder at your feet,
every day there\'s another excuse to beat.
A non believer they say
The threat is real
And you must be punished.
Blood spilled violently over the floor
but what\'s more,
your heart is breaking more each day
as you live in a cycle of the red twisted knife.
Terrified of the day that it slashes your perfect body and mind,
yet simultaneously hoping that execution will arrive so you can open the door of salvation and peace.
What you didn\'t know
That someone close to you was banging endlessly at that closed cell door
Trying to get you out
Into a safe place,
where your dignity and faith can be restored.
A final money slip
and the mouth of the lion was opened
The light hits you like a heavy brick, freedom shrieks your name
vibrating at such a high pitch it makes your ears ring,
and even though you\'re outside, liberated for now.
But that light doesn\'t turn back on
You’ve faced too much agony
and there is too much threat
So you flee
A photo and a bag of cash is all you clench in your sore brittle hands,
taking to the unpredictable jaws of the ocean.
Wind biting at your ears
Bodies packed so tightly.
You can smell trapped human flesh
children are close to suffocation.
Grown men are dying since their heart can\'t take the Arctic temperatures
The water is taking you to safety but at the same time,
Murdering
Throwing people out
Swallowing innocent living beings up
Like a venus fly trap.
Leaving the silhouette of a mottled human body flash across your mind as the raft nearly capsizes.
The rafts filling up with water
And you pray
To stay alive
and live another day
To see the sun and the moon.
Miraculously,
your prayers are heard as you tread water
Holding your breath,
trying to keep your head above the needles of water
Gasping, choking
you are lifted to safety.
A lifeboat takes you to the UK
In hope that you can find that switch to turn on that bright light again.
Stay sane
there will be a brighter day,
hold your head high,
you deserve to fly and soar
across that star filled sky where angels kiss your hands and feet.