Steps Before the Fall

Five steps to silence.. . Five steps to silence.. . Five steps to fall — To rise, to burn, To lose it all. In the end? Still five steps to silence. Five steps to steel and track, Five steps — no turning back. Five steps to the infinite night, Five steps more… ah, one more fight. More days pass, More shadows call — Five steps out, To break the wall. Five steps to release, To the cliff where the sky deceives, Past towers carved from hope, Past fields of golden dreams, Homes of glass and gilded lies, A world that rots beneath bright skies. Five steps to the shotgun’s kiss, Five steps to something more than this. Five steps to calm, to sweet erase — I saw it leave… my soul, my face. Four steps now — I feel it near, The edge of now, the end of fear. Live the space between you and me, Till the last drop of the dying sea. Don’t wait for miracles… Just count to three.