Trash on trash on trash on trash
Pens, folders, staplers, trash
Trash on trash with no switchback
One-way road paved by the brash
Wheel, pedal, clutch, trash
Trash on trash as I clutch the ash
Built on lies, not built to last
Phone, tablet, computer, trash
Trash on trash on trash on trash
There's a full stash because we were rash
An irritation that needs no relations
It swells and teems
I yell and scream
If it can all come together
Then why can't we?

Always so hesitant
Now you are apathetic
Pathetic about how pathetic
The word "pathetic" is!
Frighetened even terrified
Over the ghost words
From people you never knew
Throwing knives that hit a board
Tied right back to themselves

The pieces
Change shape and size
One enters while the other says goodbye
Bursting with color
Then it bursts out of the window
No one can put together the picture
Is it of you? Of who you were?
Is it a static memory?
Or a vibrant compliment?
The colors and size change
You always change for others
But I always see you in them
Smiling

Your riches
Hide your riches
All your claims
A facade of the real thing
You say my smile is bright
While you choke my joy
You tell me what to sing
I tell you nothing
It all looks nice
When you see it from one side
One dream, one nightmare
Too fast and too slow
A duality multiplied by a voice so cold

Soldier
Pointed at a civilian
Thief
Pointed at an opportunity
Politician
Pointed at a population
Idol
Pointed at a religion
"It's just what they do."
Such is the way we are
We retreat to fiction
Now we are just as ridiculous
Living in lies
Adorned with jewels

Hypnosis
Solution to distress
Comes with razors
Raining down
Pressure billowing
Until all comes down
Now all we control
Comes with sleep and dreams
Monsters with faces
Breathing in remnants
Of a world they long destroyed
Wait until the day
They have nowhere left to go

Hypnosis
Psychosis
Acts of violence
To keep things silent
Such catharsis
Such crisis
A chrysalis
Broken by their genesis