The stone monolith of judgement
presiding over myopic movements
casting a glare of rage-red, bleeding
residing restfully, on an ivory balcony
wherever I seem to go I'm always leading
the shadow of your gavel ever over me,
like Damocles; I can't stand trial on broken knees
Ideate suicide and violence, stranglehold thoughts don't relent
choking reason, chasing down common sense, my time is spent
fear is a stronghold, you can hide in it, safe from an open view
it's a choice that's harder to make when only pleasantries are tunneled in front of you
I've lived with anxiety in control, giving my madness a voice was never a conversation piece
eyeballing me for burial in a pigeonhole, exploiting the pressure of this lonely sadness,
isolated, on the outside it's easier to justify peers' peering hatred, give it a rest, social police
I wouldn't raise a hand to you if you were my teacher, self-taught, classless, I've had this
streak of luckless love, always alienated, never exonerated
Never been interesting, patience testing
a patient, temperament foul and festering
not being all there might be the best thing
daydreams, Elysium reeds in the wind sing
home calls me, that empty lot looks a lot like a golden ring
free to decide on paradise, no longer lifting the weight of dawn
just to see the next day, conscience flowing, glowing outward on
trickling rainfall association, loose-connection, brainstormed concoction
grow and groom personal Yggdrasil, a bonsai tree, in this place
meditate on the realization of the vision, every clipping is a footfall towards grace
persecuted for the image, behavior, for the portrayal
conceived, thought, written and spoken
every effort to improve serves self-betrayal
a window into a moment that they look through and then call broken.
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