No untruth has kissed my lips
Departing from the stinging red drum
I could easily say I've swallowed the earth
Such events are far in between
I could disown my participation
Like a million feet unseen
As they take their paths across a room
Forming a dance I cannot see
A million steps unheard
A million steps unseen
Not with a bang but a whimper
Or a mixture of the two
With a scream not a whisper
As I am the monster
As are you
I have seen the man with the golden tongue
I have seen the diamonds in his eyes
Behold the insurgent cataracts
I've seen his million words fall bleak
Flutter down to dust and ash
Light seeps in flickers through rotten teeth
Burning bright with absence of fire
Bemused with loving gestures
Reaching up for the pull chain
It fades
Silence pursued and seldom won
Beginning to finish and never done
Life-like rain begins to descend
White on white to blur out the end
While looming faces watch and frown
The broken switch becomes my crown
With one last rise and fall of my chest
I utter those words we both detest;
"Nothing on earth now could be more true
As I am the monster
As are you."
EMO, friend, EMO friend, etc.
Also, before one of you points out the T.S. Eliot rip; it's not plagiarism, it's an homage
