To Deceitful Eyes
to deceitful eyes
i stand petrified
on fire for the fuel i seek
i grant them nothing
not even a peek
just the tip of my entrenching tool
without a trace
i vanish like a jewel down your neck
before every saving grace
to whom it concerns
i assure you my face
wriggles with laughter
at your ineffectual squirms
to my deceitful eyes
you fall into my cozy cage
and i descend with a lover's rage
to their deceitful eyes
i cry protectively
shadowing your body
with my own failing frame
i stagger to the entrance and struggle
assailed by deviants
muscles screaming as they tear you from me
and carry you away
our love so pervasive i smell you to this day
my aged, weary eyelids
straining to view another sunrise
lowered to the ground as if on a string
i fiddle with a scuffed silver ring
that i never took off
that i never betrayed
after your death, even then i stayed
i have killed
many in your name
righteous and sinful
all fell to my hollow blade
my rising anger
warring with my drowning shame
to their deceitful eyes
a whippoorwill's song sounds like a lullabye
someday soon
ill know for sure
if all the words I spoke
might be the cure
a phoenix's winged
effortless flight
might take me from my plight
and leave me broken
on a beach in May
and eternally stoned
burning, burning, nothing left
but consuming flame
to your deceitful eyes
your wishful acceptance of blame
that i take into myself
feel it sit like a sponge
if ever i forget
let me know in time
so that i might be honest in the end
and see the truth that you hide
i come from simpler times
i am the sum of lesser evils
i pray that i might recognize
the nature of the path
the bias of the witness
for in your dark eyes i see my redemption
as casual as it seems
no exemption
goodbye window of morning sunlight
in the shadows i lie
and molder upright
welcome to the catacomb of my eternal night
i stand petrified
on fire for the fuel i seek
i grant them nothing
not even a peek
just the tip of my entrenching tool
without a trace
i vanish like a jewel down your neck
before every saving grace
to whom it concerns
i assure you my face
wriggles with laughter
at your ineffectual squirms
to my deceitful eyes
you fall into my cozy cage
and i descend with a lover's rage
to their deceitful eyes
i cry protectively
shadowing your body
with my own failing frame
i stagger to the entrance and struggle
assailed by deviants
muscles screaming as they tear you from me
and carry you away
our love so pervasive i smell you to this day
my aged, weary eyelids
straining to view another sunrise
lowered to the ground as if on a string
i fiddle with a scuffed silver ring
that i never took off
that i never betrayed
after your death, even then i stayed
i have killed
many in your name
righteous and sinful
all fell to my hollow blade
my rising anger
warring with my drowning shame
to their deceitful eyes
a whippoorwill's song sounds like a lullabye
someday soon
ill know for sure
if all the words I spoke
might be the cure
a phoenix's winged
effortless flight
might take me from my plight
and leave me broken
on a beach in May
and eternally stoned
burning, burning, nothing left
but consuming flame
to your deceitful eyes
your wishful acceptance of blame
that i take into myself
feel it sit like a sponge
if ever i forget
let me know in time
so that i might be honest in the end
and see the truth that you hide
i come from simpler times
i am the sum of lesser evils
i pray that i might recognize
the nature of the path
the bias of the witness
for in your dark eyes i see my redemption
as casual as it seems
no exemption
goodbye window of morning sunlight
in the shadows i lie
and molder upright
welcome to the catacomb of my eternal night
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