The Way
The way the tulips dance for me
Objectify my heart for the masses
Eclipsed by effervescent rays
Twisted and torn apart like frail butterfly wings
Immortal psalms spoken to a tree
In order to free the mind
From a rapture of forsaken solitude
There's asylum in silence
And burden in the collapse
Of a paradigm shift
Find little scraps of paper
Fold them over
A universe erupts in your fingertips
As if your actions
Were those of a righteous god
Whose blood could cure cancer
So riddle me this
If the answer is in the question
Was there ever a question
Or perhaps
Was the wrong question asked
But the right answer given
In the end it all leads back to darkness
Corrupting the senses
And clouding the mind's eye
We're a victim of our own cognition
Failing to bear witness
To reality for what it really is
Pantomime your last argument
The debate was settled before humanity began
That in the beginning an ending was written
And in the end a beginning was encapsulated
By the emotions of a willow tree
And the drunk man brandishing literature
To an immature world of un-hearing ears
Fill your last cup of tea
With the tears of Prometheus
In time you'll find your true self
But only if you become unshackled
From delusions
Planted in your mind thousands of years ago
If the nature of an honest man
Is wisdom
Then we shall label him unjust
And execute him
As a bloody tyrant
If the nature of a lying man
Is wisdom
Then we shall label him messiah
And execute him
As the savior from sin
And the burden is written on every page
Passed through generation
After generation
Until my heart is given platform
To write the language of the stars
I give birth to rapture
And in rapture I give birth to birth itself
For the sake of wisdom
My heart is half honest
But mostly lying
So mount me on the wall
And make me a martyr
For the whole world to see
And I watch one last time
The way lilies dance for me
Copyright © Christopher Goss | Year Posted 2018
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