Ephemeral

Obscure reflections stare back at me

Through the tainted water

Neglected exposure

I am the product of this distorted culture

Eclipsed by my antic disposition

I'm merely an illusionary shell fed to chimeras

Fragmented am I

Fragmented constructs of a fluorescent realm

Incept a twilight and destruct the elms

A collective myopic gaze entrances us all

Oh, how I pity this despondent existence

The lustrous phantom speaks of tongues obscured

The pale lumiére speaks of eyes deluded

My innocence was stolen by the birds who couldn’t see

Singing sonnets as the earth stood still and screamed

And at the end of it all

I was torn from my soul

Begging that one day

I might be whole

And at the end of it all

I might be whole

I set my heart ablaze and watched it flare nihility

But then the gateway appeared to me

And showed me the path

That would reconstruct my life

And purge this condition

And understand my disdain

This world is nothing more

Than the quintessence of dust

Show me how to rid myself of the shadows that lurk inside of me

And at the start of it all

I was torn from soul

Begging that one day

In time

I might be whole

Show me how to rid myself of the shadows that lurk in me

There are shadows that lurk in me