EXIT

Faced the crowd

in a blind mirror

Skull smashed headfirst

Against this wall of inner need

I knew this fall

Would send it all down towards the lights

And they will question once more

From their unscathed towers

I'll answer:

Go on and force

Your one-bit truth until the end

I'll swallow every bullet

That rips through the hull

A sheltered life crawls forward, vomits

And folds around twin blades

I pull it back like last time

Yet it never cuts through all the way

I always have to take it hostage

Whenever I feel

I find no way to begin

It always bled from within

They fed the dreams so it could rip

I've grown content in this dream

I'll let those others take and give

Whenever I feel

There is no way to begin

I've grown content in this dream

I'll let those others take and give

And if I had:

Leaned forward and let their downpours mask

Preburned fields growing supports for a future set in past

Every reflection would lie and every breath would climb blind

Toward their shallow corpse of a self-lit sky

And just its weight would be enough

To send it all off the edge towards that same undecided mind

Towards that self-absorbed conscience that only screams

So predictably:

"Someone burn me an exit"

Stormed their black-rise tower looming past

Drove them all out into a corner

Of the memory gridmap

Airlocked and silenced, I kept holding back

Finally burned them all alive

Before cutting off my own blood supply

I knew they had it bypassed to a bloodthirsty human mass

That infested with a false promise of a chance

And held a freedom already dried up and past