Forgiveness

A traveler of light
He came to this earth
He had come to warn us of ourselves
And what he had observed
Alone, alone in this universe
He had lost all that he had once loved
His homeland had been cursed
He said
I see in you
What my people have been before
Our love of power and of might
Was the cause of our downfall
I have come to warn you
To prepare you, to save you
From yourselves
At first we embraced his knowledge
And his thoughts on our world
He was from a place far from here
That became the victim of tyranny and war
His father, like any father
Planned an escape for his only child
He sent him traveling through time
Underneath the cover of the darkest night
Tell others of our fate
Tell others what you have witnessed here
Have them learn that tyranny and war
Only leads to the death of us all
Be sure to tell them
That there is always another way
A path we should have followed years ago
But now it's too late
We listened for some time
And he showed us of the power that he could wield
How we could raise mountains into the sky
And walk across the seas
We saw him as our weapon
To protect us from our unknown enemies
Until we thought it best
That he should confront and demand the remission
Of defeat
He fought for us on lands and on oceans
That we had never ever seen before
Or been before
He raised our flag above the bones of those
He had forced to crawl
Now it was he and he alone
Who threatened our new way of life
So we stole his last breath
As he slept underneath the cover of the darkest night
He left a written word
Like a message painted on our city walls
It was the path he had spoken of to us
Once before
It read forgiveness
It read forgiveness
It read forgiveness
It read forgiveness