I robbed myself of my motivation I was the individual with the ski mask I pressed the glock .9 against the tellers temple While she prayed to god, I counted the devil for my greed turned into an evil deception of my own moral ambiguity What I thought was a righteous path was truly an everlasting darkness littered with my decayed convictions subliminal messages pierced my mental processes controlling me like a lamb to the slaughter As my hand gripped the trigger I thought to myself Who am I doing this for? Who do I live for? As I cut the cash silently like the a surgeons incision, my mind was running circles like clockwork Time was my mistress, ironically stringing me along, deceiving me to believe that I was the puppet master With no strings attached I remained untethered, oblivious to my own reality All along I thought I was the king However, just as the sheep follows the Shepard I became a cog without cognition