The Heist

My mate Robbie and me where going to town

When we noticed a situation was starting to go down

Police cars came streaming down the street from Lord knows where

And people were legging it to get away from there.

So without ado and acting as if one

We turned and started running to where they were running from

It wasn’t hard to tell the source of all the fuss

By the circle of police cars and a police minibus

Full of burly coppers armed to the teeth

Sweating in the sunshine with stab vests underneath

So much body armour they could barely rise

Machine guns across their chests and fear in their eyes

Behind them was a jewellery shop windows, broken door ajar

The alarm above it blaring it’s warning to afar

In the street in front a man lay crumpled on the floor

Eyes open looking lifeless, down outside the door

Even from where we stood it was plain to tell

For him the dramas over, and didn’t turn out well.

The Police shouted at us, ordered us to retreat

Robbie just stood there, his face as white as a sheet

I grabbed his arm and tried to drag my friend away

He pushed me off and looked at me in terror and disarray

“My wife’s in there” he growled, “she works behind the till,

If the cops won’t go to help her out then I guess we will”

“I don’t know, man, those guns are full of lead

We get caught in the middle, we will both end up dead”

He looked at me with disgust in his eyes, and that I couldn’t take

“Ok” I muttered, “but it’s one hell of a chance to take”

He slapped me on the shoulder then turned to face the store

Then he did something that I’ve never seen before

Just before I carry on I need a moment to set the scene

So outside the police are hanging around as we have already seen

Inside the jewellery store one gunman has his gun on the staff

The other one is peeking out of the window keeping his eye on t’ path

Both were getting desperate, not expecting to be there so long

Never expecting to use the guns, or things to go so wrong

So Robbie stripped off naked and screaming like a ghoul

Ran between the police cars breaking every rule

The cops were so shaken, the forgot they had arms

And stared in consternation at Robbie dubious charms

It gave us the time we needed to get through the door

And both of us went crashing into the jewellery store

The window gunman panicked and put a bullet in the ceiling

Just as Robbie kneed him in the groin reducing him to squealing

His gun dropped from his hands and I kicked it out the door

Robbie gave him an uppercut and knocked him to the floor

The second gunman was screaming and pointed his gun at me

And time slowed down and his trigger finger was all that I could see

The barrel flashed, the pain ripped through, I dropped down on one knee

Holding my hand on my stomach , blood was all I could see

I looked at the gunman, the last thing that I saw

A lady jumped him around the neck pushing him to the floor

Police were shouting orders but all I could see was grey

Then both the noise and the world quietly slipped away.

Well Robbie didn’t get locked up, or a commendation

I guess his wife working there acted as mitigation

His wife and friend were ok and visit me regularly

And Robbie comes every week to apologise to me

They all blame themselves, I tell them to behave

Every time they come, they come to lay flowers on my grave