She holds my muse captive in a cage with bars of bamboo I fear if I don't retrieve it I'll never be completed Use a scapel to spill my guts on loose leaf, then I delete it It's unworthy, it's too wordy Got too much love for you I'd be broken if you heard it And these days, I'm not too sure who recites it And these days' I'm indifferent with who likes it Somedays I don't even know the man who writes it Scribble a wordy flurry and not understand what incites it It all feels insightless A pretentious attempt to be righteous And what is righteousness? Staring bold faced at the heart of the abyss Saying even though it's looming I can't be defined by this Or lose my mind to this, thinking ignorance is bliss Enlightenment ensorcelled with the progress of humanity Standing hand in hand with a communal prosperity No severalty severity Trade your famous 15 seconds for just one moment of clarity