His Rival lyrics

A demon appeared from unwary lust

Without regard for selfish desire

Inopportune and constraining

But bore no malice, no contempt

Tarried by their unseeing options

They held in account the debt

To total a span of a lifetime

For the crimes' constant grumblings

No mitigation for an infant

Surely so none to give to a toddler

Nor lend to a teen, lest an adult

Who stole away the 'what ifs'

A secret pact to commit to

To compensate for deliberate sins

And avow injustice and tyranny

Under a pitiless paternal guise

Lashing words to contort the soul

Flogging swings with eyes of hate

To bring welts, bruises, breaks

The body, a delegated flagellant

No love to hear, nor mercy to show

Only legal constraints afar hinder him

No haven, nor undiscriminating judge

With a scale that tips even empty

From the terror antics late night

To responses bid and always wrong

A child should not pay for their life

In daily doses of abuse unabated

Tis difficult to sit in school

In the throws of pain and injury

Not to give away the purpetrator

Then to suffer the consequences

Even to attempt to manipulate, to stop

Lest the truth of the world awaken

To attempt even to sabatoge goals

That may be better than his limits

Such a trivial man, so a child suffers

In a world that has no choices

Only fearful unknowns and options

So that even hurt is a comfort

His hand was not of compassion

Callused in stone-hearted contempt

Kept alive in plentiful idleness

An example another followed true

Now in time's wake and age's length

When frailties lead to uncertainty

A fear grips his being all alone

A rogue seeks justice in the end

An ideal world created in his mind

Not shared, nor known in days gone

The long spanse of distant days

That collected into years untended

No roses grow in this garden

For bitter tears kill all hope

Only greyness and darkness loom

A land lifeless, liable, lost

Those that knew then are now gone

A generation's quieted testimony

The earth brings justice to all

Time dispenses ever impartially

A great conundrum is approaching

In a place where obligation and guilt

Meet in long-held conflict kept

Misguided duty, conditioned so

His future to be fairly determined

By the offended, the insulted, the hurt

An unforseen consequence of a despot

Now realized in the roles changed

Justice can never be certainly dealt

An unrepentant scoundrel never to see

The transgressions without amends

Only an epoch ceasing brings relief