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Magician

There is dark magic

Here in my attic

A magician’s tactics

Cause pain emphatic

 

This magician gives me all I can handle

Until one day I’m dismantled

Like a once lit candle

Extinguished by the ice near Ymir

Birthing the Titans I fear

Bringing death here

Morphing me into a rigid wreck

Here in the frigid depths

I wish I left

 

The violence of violins

Lamenting the vile sin

Conjured by riled kin

Like they’re wild djinn

Can’t be muted

Only diluted

By becoming rooted

In thinking stupid

Avoiding Cupid

To join the putrid

 

The magician concocts potions

That excuse my emotions

As I forget devotion

For a temporary motion

 

The magician gives us difficult obstacles

And easily medicated excuses

So people won’t make things optimal

While purpose eludes them

 

Like Jekyll and Hyde

My hackles I hide

With shackles of pride

Covered in mystic thorns

So my wrists are torn

From the pain adorned

It’s my brain I mourn

 

The magician erects walls so thick

They separate healers from the sick

With magic bricks

Imbued by the magician’s enchantment

He builds a wall and then expands it

Until those inside become tantric

From the prison wall’s antics

 

Every time I turn the page

I am given rage

On the magician’s stage

Of the wars we wage

Under a curse of anger

Dehumanizing strangers

To deploy the Army Rangers

Perpetuating harming danger

 

The magician lies

The magician steals

The magician hides

What is real

Until I feel

The cold steel

The magician wields

Piercing through my electrified body

I guess the magician finally caught me

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Written by
andrew-rueter
30 / M / Kentucky
Published
Mar 14, 2019
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