folsom prison blues { widow
Jan 6, 2017 4:22:04 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 4:22:04 GMT -5
J E S S I E M C C R E E |
I ain't never expected to stare the devil in his own two eyes.
Mercy held my hand over the dinner table, whispering her little halo talks into the dirt of my skin -- "it'll be okay, Jessie." A smile, a drink, "you're going to be okay," and it didn't sound so condescending outta her mouth. Just a promise. We laughed and talked in this first time in ages and she prayed for the sake of my name, I prayed for the sake of her smile; traitors don't get it easy.
My lord did I really believe her, huh.
And I tipped my hat to the devil myself, a smile and I reckon I could climb this mountain myself. Bit my tongue and watched her seamlessly exist in a way that she knew in her fingers laid the bullet to my skull -- she'll kill me yet. We crossed shoulders. Like the reaper and the parted, only I don't know where my fate lays. Widowmaker, two of the same, two of the same genocide generations to the point of knowing who she is.
Knowing who she used to be. But she can say the same for me really; now that we're on the same turf again I reckon. Nights pass of me trying to not think of it, not think of Amelie's cold smile and the twist of muscles as she walked. Now if that's not a thing to be a'drinkin to then I ain't got a clue what is. My apartment's cramped, compared to what I've seen of the other's. Or maybe it's just the messiest, I don't have a clue. Empty beer bottles racked on the floor, stains in the carpet and bedsheets, there ain't no need to go cleaning it up right now anyways.
Not when I might not even live to see a week from now.
Reinhardt invited me to his office and I didn't hesitate. Every minute I spend along with him feels like a minute saved to my clock; he doesn't know much of what I'm fuckin' with but I reckon he doesn't need to know much. Few times now he's walked me on smoke breaks from the quarters back to my apartment, father-son style and all, but I shook my head and told him I'd be fine this time.
The spurs on my boots jangle as I walk, Reinhardt begs me not to smoke much in the building but honey I don't have the days to wait to walk outside for one half of a cigarette. Echoes through the dimly lit hallway bit my soul -- it's weird going through the same building at night for the first time. Simple games and gun building, Tracer and I laughed down these same halls but it feels a different life.
Midnight and moon light burns in my lungs, cigarette ash kissing my soul and fuck- a choke, a cough, I ain't no pretty smoker. Pacing down the hallways back and forth until the carry of another's steps become an offbeat tempo to the jangles of my boots, tapping on the tip surface of smooth waxed floor. I try not to pay mind to it, dropping ash flakes as I pace to who's coming. Trying to play it off as a custodian as I keep my eyes down until it's already upon me, fuck-
"You're shittin' me."
A cough, flicking the cigarette onto the ground and stepping on it -- I don't hesitate. I can't. Lit ashes hissing as I twist my heel into the ground, Widowmaker. Amelie Lacroix. A sister of borrowed blood and I can't swallow down anything else then "what the fuck're you doin' here." My hands tangled in the collar of her shirt and I slam her into the wall -- I can't trust her.
The cornered animal is the most dangerous one, I reckon.