The Message: A Browncoat Ballad

 The Message
A Browncoat Ballad

If you can't run

You walk

If you can't walk

You crawl

And when you can't do that

You find someone to carry you

The scars of war

Never fade

And are shared

Among those

Who suffer through them

Memories of laughter and joy

Tempered by traumas

An ally from the war

Needs to be carried to his final destination

At least, it appears that way

But then he wakes up

He has forgotten the sincerity of the words

He has placed himself above the code

Above allies old and new

Serenity is now in danger

Tough decisions must be made

Ever true and loyal Browncoats

Soliders of old save Serenity

But can't save their fallen oath breaker

An oath breaker now prepared

To deliver his final message

To family and friends

Unaware that he had fallen

He will be remembered for what he was

When he still lived by those words

Not for what he became

When those words weren't getting through

To a man that just wanted to go home