Apocryphal

Burning your bridges,
you watch as they fall.
Laughing to yourself
that you've thought of it all.

What's going to happen
at the end of your game,
with your morals abscond
and your life, full of shame?

No one will trust you
as you've acted in greed,
we'll pull out your knife
and you'll watch as we bleed.

Our bonds will get stronger
for vacillation is not ours,
you'll stand in decaying pits
as we watch from our towers.

You'll look up in despair
in your forsaken, brutal ridges,
you are forever discarded
as you've burned all your bridges.

~ Melissa Burk