Poison

Poison Swim deep enough until you lose sight of the light past the rough section of love, understanding and desire stare down the bottomless pit recognise your own reflection in the eyes of the Beast notice the tentacles that reach towards your sense of self, let them envelop you start pulling you down deeper, farther in, as deep as you can bear, a little more once you've lost almost all sense, desire, will start fighting, start swimming come back to you, come back to us back to the light. Open your eyes. See. Listen to the voice. Hear. Acknowledge the poison you carry. Understand. Open your mouth. Speak. See the reality you inhabit hear the sounds that surround you understand your own tainted nature speak the truth you carry Stand up. Rise above move past the interference recognise the flaws in their actions accept the consequences of your own; It's thanks to you, thanks to your poison that the erosion has happened. Do no waiver, do not run from the monstrosities in front of your eyes: It's your own shadow first magnified through the prism of lies and deceit It's your conscience second poisoned by your own blood It's our own nightmares third the murder of god and sanity It's the Machine and the Matriarch fourth created by our insanity It's the Messiah of Western modernity fifth the spawn of the former titans It's all of them combined sixth the horror of a tormented psyche It's the desire to flee, escape, ignore seventh this is not me, surely this is not us. Look at them. Look at it. Look into its eyes, deeply. Isn't it familiar? Does it not ring a bell? Can you not see? Do you refuse to hear? Why can't you understand the words it speaks? Somewhere deep down in a state of limbo we float, paralysed locked in place by its gaze drinking the poison, willingly.