Leeds 81

Leeds 81

You never showed yourself to me...

But maybe you passed me by!

Did I witness hatred in your soul?

See death within your eye!

I'd walked the many backstreets

Passed the red walls smoked in black

It never crossed my mind

That you might stab me in the back!

A kind of strange distraction

Just a twist to show you can

That maybe out of boredom

You would choose to kill a man

You wandered unknown freely

You were hunted high and low

Posters pleaded "FIND HIM"

And the search for you did grow

I strolled the streets at night time

My eyes watched out for you

Could I be the destined one

That stopped the things you do

I'd see you there about your work

And take a brick in hand

Then bash that brick upon your head

Above you proudly stand

I'd witness rage below you 

From a horror scene of hate

Could I have been her hero?

If I'd not have come too late

But then the papers showed us

That the monster had been caught

You looked nothing like a demon

Or the devil I had sought

In fact you looked pathetic 

Just a man beneath a beard

I'd imagined Mr Hyde

At least somebody weird!

Is that why you defected?

Did you need to be a name?

Did your god do all the killing?

And leave you to take the blame!

Or did you just find power

In the softness under touch?

And find that you enjoyed it far too much!