From where he must lie
It is all he can see
Fire burns the stars away
As bird cries become screams
And mercy rushes away with the river
Firecrackers become the gunshots
And paper into bayonets
As the dragon flies away he cries
For the lustful monkeys' victims
And as his body bleeds he sees
Their eyes, black like coal
Drawing all his life to the surface
Letting it pour to the ground below
It pumps and bubbles, running across his skin
And the world begins to fall away
The man standing above him says nothing
He isn't the child that clung to his clothes
Who rode in his basket and called him nii-san
This man is a demon, a cruel spirit of death
His red trophies splattered on his white uniform
And his eyes cold like the farthest north
As Yao's body begins to die
He feels the tears mixing with his blood
And he smiles as the image of Kiku dissipates
And the screaming fades away