All for One and One for All

           I.    

Innocent boy innocent life, naive.

Tall man in green says,

“I’ll make you all you can be”.

No one is born to kill,

Everyone is born to die.

The Ten Commandments do not apply.

Parents, Church and Family raised you up,

We will tear you down.

These are your brothers,

This is our plan.

You’re going to become part

of this fraternal band.

Shave your head,

Take away your identity.

Going to take away your soul.

All you will see is what we allow,

Black, Green and Brown.

All You will feel is what we allow,

Pain, Pride and Hate.

We’ll give you a place to lay your head,

You will call it home.

First you will call me Master, then Father,

Someday fellow Brother.

I’m going to make you just like me,

Soon you will have blood on your hands.

                II.

We have tore you down,

We built you up.

You are standing tall,

Your standing proud.

Deny your dreams, deny your past,

You’re one of us at last.

We have succeeded,

Through your grief and pain

See how we all look the same,

One identity of one mind and plan.

Never murmur nor whisper be told,

Of the horrors we engraved upon your soul.

So close to death,

So we can feel life.

How did it taste, how did it feel?

To have death in your mouth,

Between your loins?

For our amusment,

For our gain.

Slowly you turn,

Slowly you change.

Fear becomes hysteria.

A sadistic cry, a haunting laugh.

Twelve, eleven, ten,

Run, run, RUN!

The bombs go off,

But you are safe.

Changed forever by horrors fate.

Tell no one, tell not yourself.

Let it turn,

Let it twist inside.

Like poison ivy in your soul,

You have become a man.

        III.

Told on the god’s of war have you!

All for One and One for All,

Have you forgot brother?

For I am still first the Master.

Black, Green and Brown,

Pain, Pride and Hate,

What of these?

We must put you back on the Trail,

Or send your mind on to Hell.

Push here, prod there.

You will soon break I’m sure.

Take him from here,

Lock him away in white sheets.

Three days and three nights,

In the Abyss I went.

I do not want to remember,

I wish only to forget.

Send him away from our fold,

Strip him of our fraternal might.

Leave our demons inside his soul.

At his core we shall remain,

For on his soul our creed remains.

“All for One and One for All”.

 

Copyright © 2006-2007, Kenneth Dale Connelly