The shallow surface beauty
Cares only for herself
Unaware of the cancer
Steady rising up beneath
Eating the inside, ready to consume
The candy-coated shell

Bony finger, wrinkled hand
Trained by practice to deceive
Friendly grin (wicked eye)
Spots children like an addict--
Dangles carrots, snipes caution--
Drags them helpless weak away

Feline beast hides in shadow
Unseen power under stinkeye
Muscles ripple, claws unsheath
Rabid drool proves Sane's decay
Torturous time grinds still to watch
While Future plans attack

Time prances on
Obliged to not a thing
Hurling world onto collision course
Careening to implosion
While people stop and stare
This planet, such a whore
There's nothing left to desecrate

Can't see the f.ing sun
When acid rain eats my eyes
Don't need your f.ing gun
Won't work: immune to lead
Don't want your f.ing lie
You've done too much to hide

Step away, show your hands
This angel's got a knife
Alien here wants an out
Fatherless is seeking one
Widow here is in heat
Won't play by the rules

This weariness explains
Why I am bound here still
While world pours me tea
Suffocating slow away
No masochism here:
It's torture 'till the end

Death would be a door
My chains fall just too short
Let me catch the moon and float
Away; let me fly,
Or evaporate the evil
That condensed in my head

You--consult your demon
You--seek your golden god
Stall for me, turn your back
While I unzip the truth
That you're too scared to face
(So you hid it like a child)

This truth of what you left us
While you promised us the best
The standards that you set,
Roles and games you played
To teach us how to live
This is what I thank you for


I'm not always this bitter.
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