The cathartic pops and flashes of random gunfire (in a darkened circus tent)

[Daddy Bear]

Binding promises unlaced

Rationale not clear

Loyalty with knives erased

All words insincere

 

Leaving me uncomprehending

Betrayal festering

Is Waterloo without an ending

All that faith can bring?

 

I was grateful to the floor

It held me up

Or down, not sure

Anyway, it's much more real than you

You've triumphed now, you've carried out your coup

Haven't you?

This is a requiem

For a fool

 

So I'll draw stick men on the walls

Inside this flaming home

And if they're done before it falls

I'll muse on them alone

 

Charcoal smiles, bone-white background

Vicious irony

A grinning stack of bones will sink down

Where I used to be

 

And I loved clouds in the sky

They waved hello

Or waved goodbye

Anyway, they're much more real than you

You built a trap to see what I would do

Didn't you?

This is a diagram

Of a tool

 

Lies will stream through crystal prisms

And break in hues beyond our vision

Soft deceit and tears of jism

Stone is not what makes a prison

 

Hope is dirt and likewise trust

They form this spinning nightmare's crust

Labeled "Love" are jars of lust

Expired into ash and dust

So smear them on your marble bust

And play the mourner if you must

[yeawutever]

Thumbs up!!!!!!!

[Daddy Bear]

thanks as always, Ailec.