Skull & Bones

You fill your days
eyes on the page
Words to forget
a truth that stays
Forever in the back of your brain...
and you hope these words
can numb your pain.
Fill your head with fiction
to take your mind off you,
But everything in front of you,
Everything you ever knew
is poison.

Spend your time
transfixed by a screen
Lost in the stories,
things not what they seem
Forcing your troubles to the back of your brain...
but stories and songs
only dull the pain.
Fill your thoughts with fantasy,
with things that can never be-
But everything you hear and see
is poison.

Surround yourself with laughter
with those who have no cares
Who feed emptiness to their souls
whose hearts are callous and cold...
And as the waters rise around you
You'll wish they only knew
That everything they were to you
was poison.

If poison is in all you hear
and all you see
and the people you're near,
Then how can you be anything
but toxic?


--Lo--