Everybody knows.
We've been here this whole time.
You're closer than you think-
Your address isn't hard to find.
Trapped alone and on display,
like all of us here.
Relinquish your seclusion
for a cheap opinion or two.
Reality fumbles
to keep up
with this consortium of bums
that look unto a crowd as if to see a mirror.
"Did you like it?"
"Yes, I thought it clever."
"But you don't like it?"
"I don't understand."
Divorce yourself
from the idea.
Grasping for straws.
If no one agrees, how can it be so?
Staring in the dark,
etching silhouettes on the wall.
Fooled into waiting
for anonymous approval.
How fragile our ego;
self-deprecate unless instructed otherwise.
Sing out loud, crave the applause;
drown in only the echo.
Jun 17, 2011
Jun 17, 2011 at 12:18 PM UTC
Everybody knows.
We've been here this whole time.
You're closer than you think-
Your address isn't hard to find.
Trapped alone and on display,
like all of us here.
Relinquish your seclusion
for a cheap opinion or two.
Reality fumbles
to keep up
with this consortium of bums
that look unto a crowd as if to see a mirror.
"Did you like it?"
"Yes, I thought it clever."
"But you don't like it?"
"I don't understand."
Divorce yourself
from the idea.
Grasping for straws.
If no one agrees, how can it be so?
Staring in the dark,
etching silhouettes on the wall.
Fooled into waiting
for anonymous approval.
How fragile our ego;
self-deprecate unless instructed otherwise.
Sing out loud, crave the applause;
drown in only the echo.
slightly revised 11/2/11
