At the grave still..
"I have waited my entire life for this moment or so it seems, this moment that I turn my back on you for the last time," I whispered to the grave of Mastermind. And yet I could not move my feet as if they were frozen. "This is what you leave us," I muttered, "loose ends, unfinished plans, the burden of your legacy..." I remember so clearly the night I caught him speaking to someone, or something, or to himself maybe, he said :
The breath of life I give
Go forever live
But time did no favors keep
My soul sinks fast and deep
Brainchild, you're lost
Lost in sleep.
And the world passes by
Get up and fly
Seize time to soar in the sky
Leave that bed where you lie
Brainchild, wake, wake,
Before I die...
"But alas, my dear brother, your time has come. Take to your grave all that you can, your quest for glory, your unrequited love, your revolutionary dreams, let them lay buried with you from this day forth. For I must live my own life..."
"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Remember, Mastermind, from dust thou art
And unto dust, thou shalt return..."
As I said these words, I thought to myself, "I have wronged him...somehow."
And so I turned my back on Mastermind. But this time it is for ever...
