Layers of Reality
Listen to the heartbeat
Of this world
We're on borrowed time
The condition is...
CRITICAL!
A critical failure!
Jumpin' jelly beans look at the time
Those old stock photos were prophetic
MELTDOWN INCOMING!!!!!
5...
4...
3...
2...
1...
I lost track
Was there a countdown?
Perhaps...
It all ends at midnight
Allow me to introduce myself
I am the lord of lies
Who speaks only truth
With each lie
I add another layer
With each truth
I destroy another layer
How many layers are left?
If you guessed right...
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
Sirens flash before my eyes
I've lost all pretense of sanity
Cut my arteries open
Because I'll bleed just like you
Rip off my fingernails
And shave off my hair...
I'm more human than a humanist
Courageous...
I laugh at my own failure
Delete! Delete!
Delete!
Delete! Delete!
Delete!
DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
LEEEEEEEEEEE
TUH
My past was written in the future
A future fortune of failing fractures
Fading foldout films and phonograms
I think I lost my nerve
Pluck, pluck, pluck
Oh no
I'm clucking like an ugly duckling!
In the end
I look upon the layers of reality
And I see more than you
Because I am greater than God
God bends his knee at my feet
I AM IMMORTAL
I AM PROMISED
AND I AM ALL CONSUMING
My disdain for this stupid world is known
Travesty after travesty
We never learn
From the pages of the past
I spit on this dumb world
Full of dumb people
Doing dumb things
With dumb motives
And who are you?
WHO ARE YOU?
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-Fin-
Copyright © Christopher Goss | Year Posted 2018
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