Breaking Down on the Road

Summoning courage,
He's lost on the road.
Lost where the Orphans
Could not go.
The Pretender fell back
To get some troops.
But Bill isn't hindered
While en route.

He's got to get there,
But he doesn't know how.
With concentration on his soul,
He furrows his brow.
He tried to remember
What the Orphans told him.
And sickened with self,
He pukes up sin.

Soon he feels
A slit in his forehead.
Which throws away
A natural thread.
Out of this slit
Comes his knowledge and light
And Bill remembers
What the Orphans said that night.

"Bill, you have got to go on.
Meet the Asthmatic Lizard past the Frightened Sun.
He'll make you a postman, warning the children.
And he'll lend you a companion, The Other.
Take her.
Your job.
Your destiny.
Your fate.
The Pretender won't stop.
Create the syzygy.
The three."