The Gatekeeper

I am the gatekeeper
Steadfastly I hold my ground
No callers today
I resign my post for the night
There the gate stands unchallenged (only at night)
Morning comes
Unaware I venture outside
I stumble through dark corridors and lonely alleyways
(Into the decadence of life)
She finds me there, bloodied, bruised (a broken man)
Her touch quickens the pace of my heart
But, her smile, (amazing) it breaks that very heart
Realizing my vulnerability I run, as fast as I can (run legs run)
Taken to flight I reach the gate, it crashes shut behind me
She approaches the gate with caution
Glances of curiousity are exchanged through iron bars
Sworn to protect the world from the secrets that lie within
I take my post again
She beckons me closer, (dangerously close)
The gate is losing power
She calls to me, she drives me mad with desire
my response to her grows weaker
I must remember my place, what lies within, what I guard
Deny her at the cost of my heart
Deny myself to protect her
(Deny her, heart, deny her)
We stand here in this strange photograph for days
Seperated by seven feet, and seven hundred mind miles
Until she withdraws
Casting me the most beautiful smile
(Have mercy on me)
I see her imprisonment Willingly, happily, she opens her gate
Then it hits me, with the power of hell itself
Arrows raining down on my soul
Destroting my every preconception
(The torment of clarity)
I was trying to guard her from something she knew
She knew it to well
But she wasn't afraid to hide
She wasn't the first to call my gate
She won't be the last
Fear and arrogance, (my own faults)
They kept me from her
I rebuild the walls and gate a thousand times thicker
Right into the core of my hell
There to hide eternity
(Never again)

© Copyright Peter Lugo 2002

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