Tenet

We live in a twilight world,
And there are no friends at dusk,
Or so it seems,
Ten minutes from the start for them,
Ten minutes as we go back for us.
Back to front is how we proceed.
Its the inverted bullets that was my lead.
The mission was to fail,
As we succeed.
Reverting our tracks.
Through complex puzzles of time,
No time to bleed.
Tenet is the path to the future from our pasts.
We need to rewind,
Get back on track in order to save Kat,
Save the world and keep it intact.
Complex time,
Not running out,
So much as running parallel,
Time to stop the world from being inverted as well.
As cars and bullets reverse through the air,
Oxygen masks,
Are needed to get us back there.
I thought I knew the truth.
As I'd been there once before?
Not realising it was me,
The protagonist,
The one in the driving seat.
Opening all the doors.
The only way to win Is pretending to retreat.
Failing to stop the bomb Is our final fake defeat.
An operation that had ended,
Way before we'd even begun.
Secrets die with the ones you trust.
And there are no friends at dusk.
We live in a twilight world.

- Andrew Horner