in the ink of day, there in the bold, I made some grand display. in the crucible of sin I was made again. I am merely a shadow given a mask. (mask slips away) my teachings, my life, that wish that formed me has let the mask decay. in the dead of day, sow the fractures, try again, fate another spin. I just can't seem to be the correct version of me. (though I try, and try) I speak too freely, without grace, it's not about the things I say. it's a language out of frame, words that are the same. (no, no, ohh I can never find) yet it wears a different mask, another name. I run from place to place, trying to keep pace. yet my feet don't move, forever bound to the truth I found. (it's only perspective) it's a frame of mind, a drive to find, merely a mediator to a beast, a beast within. (I feel the draw, but in my stance I reside) the beast can only hide. Being a better man, from the things I left behind, a path I tread. (More words said, dance in my head) Dread the beast I was, the fool I am, and the memory of me. I trace my fractures to the seams, weave ray-beam strings (strings made of dream) between broken things, reoriented, aimed, and set free. I run from place to place, trying to keep pace. yet my feet don't move, forever bound to the truth I found. (it's only perspective) it's a frame of mind, a drive to find, merely a mediator to a beast. a beast within. (I feel the draw, but in my stance I reside) the beast can only hide. The things I think to be normal are distant things on worried ears. Despite my fears, year after year I lose the drive to stay alive. But even here, with this tired mind, I find a reason to press on, no reason or rhyme. No matter the good of the day, this too will pass. The burden at play, this too will pass. Nothing ever lasts. I run from place to place, trying to keep pace. yet my feet don't move, forever bound to the truth I found. it's a frame of mind, a drive to find, merely a mediator to a beast. (you are not the beast) in all these fractures I find, that my past is mine, my truth is just fraction of the universe. there is so much discover, never let the wonder die
