Exit - Dismantled

Faced the crowd

In a blind mirror

Skull smashed headfirst

Against this wall of inner need

I knew this fall

Would send it all down towards the lights

And they will question once more

From their unscathed towers

I’ll answer:

Go on and force

Your one-bit truth until the end

I’ll swallow every bullet

That rips through the hull

A sheltered life crawls forward, vomits

And folds around twin blades

I pull it back like last time

Yet it never cuts through all the way

I always have to take it hostage

Whenever I feel

I find no way to begin

It always bled from within

They fed the dreams so it could rip

Whenever I feel

I find no way to begin

I’ve grown content in this dream

I’ll let those others take and give

And if I had:

Leaned forward and let their downpours mask

Preburned fields growing supports for a future set in past

Every reflection would lie and every breath would climb blind

Toward their shallow corpse of a self-lit sky

And just its weight would be enough

To send it all off the edge towards that same undecided mind

Towards that self-absorbed conscience that only screams

So predictably:

«Someone burn me an exit»

Stormed their black-rise tower looming past

Drove them all out into a corner

Of the memory gridmap

Airlocked and silenced, I kept holding back

Finally burned them all alive

Before cutting off my own blood supply

I knew they had it bypassed to a bloodthirsty human mass

That infested with a false promise of a chance

And held a freedom already dried up and past