I'd like to take a moment
to thank you please
I'd like to thank you please

for all that you've done
making me the one
the chosen one

I'd like to thank you please

for making me the object
of torment you can't keep inside
your most insidious lies, resentment and disdain

I'd like to thank you please

for the all the different ways
the sneaky different ways
it all came out sideways

I'd like to thank you please

for teaching me my pain
my blessed, pious pain
helping me understand it's my fault

for showing me
how to mend my ways
and all your praise

I'd like to thank you please

for stirring it in my kool-aid
that made it go down easy
I'd like to thank you please

thank you, please
thank you, please
thank you, please

in the quiet and in the dark
everything is amplified

everything amplified
is amplified again

the depth of a breath
the beat of a heart

the shoosh-shoosh blood
rushing through veins in fits and starts

electrical pulses race back and forth
synapses fire at the slightest provocation

hurry up, wait
hurry up, wait

the endless bustle of an internal subway
delivering weary passengers to every destination

alone, in the dark
I hear their whispers

whispers drowned out
with white noise by day

slipping through the tiniest of cracks
running circles in my mind

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the clock above the mantel
recites this steady prose

this house stands empty
outside its walls

the wailing wind
echoes through its halls

the crows, ravens, vultures
invited they all came

to pick and divide
the mosaic of this life

the walls stripped bare
the carpets rolled up

only the creaking floor  
protests this naked home

above the mantel the crier remains
reciting this steady prose

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