I choose not to come here anymore,
To face this great book of lies,
Of sparkles and streamers, and plastic grins
And brilliantly backlit eyes;
Of trumpets and fanfare, and happy jigs
Of trophies of silver and gold;
I'll come here no longer to face this great book
Until my own story's been told.
There is no blank space for my story here -
Amidst all of the glitter and light,
There are no spare pages for tales of depression
And long, mournful cries in the night.
There's not a spare line, amongst tales
In which each man's a hero, a victor, a king,
For stories of villains, of widows and orphans,
And caged birds that no longer sing.
There are pl
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Chasing fire works, fire flies,
these fucking lies through urban sprawl and graffiti scrawl,
fingers locked, heart thumping in my throat like the bile I can't choke down.
It tastes like Vaseline and ashes,
a mouthful of proof of my cystic demise.
The clumsy stumble roar,
beasts with cherry-flavored foam leaking through their teeth,
and how much more skin can be chewed from my neck?
Skyscraper mazes and the pain-and-memory hazes I live and breathe
like it'd literally kill me to let it go.
Let it go.
Time slips and slides,
ice and lies,
love-dipped fallacies that hide
chrome and Vodka-bottle teeth.
Survive for the fig