Renegade
The sun shines the shadow of a man
Printed onto the face of his house
As he sits listening to the wind and blowing his smoke rings in the blue sky
His pasty white face and rippled stone eyes
Stare straight out to a long stretch of never ending thick sand
After his hard working day, he relaxes and scopes the desiccated land
He can hear nothing apart from the creaking of the chair and his occasional puff of smoke
Something is different about this day
He smells something in the wind
The silence is stranger than normal
On the far horizon he notices a subtle movement
So discreet that he throws his smoke in the sand and stomps it with his foot
Stands up and paces himself to a position so he can block the sun
Peers deep into the very heart of the west
He spots some cavalry riding fiercely with the low sun behind them
In a sudden movement he runs inside to fetch his rifle
He knows very well what they’ve come for
After years of sitting out on his chair in patience
His day of redemption has arrived
But he was not ready for it
Never would he accept his fate for something not worth dying for
He never believed in the system of corruption and mistrial
His heart is on fire burning any cold feeling he has
His shadow has now vanished
He works his bolt, aims, and shoots
The first rider falls
A barrage of his bullets tears the men to shreds
A sigh of relief now cools his boiling blood
He calmly places his rifle on the porch
Then paces himself to the bloodied scene
Stares at the dead men for a few moments
The horses stand still puzzled without an order
The man paces himself proudly back into his house
Gathers his belongings and the rifle from the porch
Marches back to the scene
Swings his leg onto one of the horses
Places himself comfortably on the saddle
He smiles, finds a cigarette, lights it up and starts puffing
He gives the horse a cheeky kick and off he rides into the unsettled dusty desert
The unsettling smell drifts away and the silence starts to speak
Him and his horse now running freely against the law
Now they roam, now they are renegades
