City

Your charm and wit shroud you In a false cloak of mist and stars To hide the ice that burns, and the vanishing light. Your words waft like the alluring scent of fragrant, melting wax To conceal the thick smoke of burning flesh Diffusing your truth with chemicals. — (Your chemicals) Veil the smoldering sun That once resided in the sky of your consciousness. — (Your poison) Smothers your will and drowns your heart In the blood of your own creation. — The city you’ve raised, This utopia of bliss, Annihilates the ebullient treasures of your birth With apathy And denial. — Your streets are plagued by melancholy Like banshees, the strays howl songs of despair Vibrations of madness echo off the grim alleyways. — Bleak, suffocating, infuriating, Hopeless. Your city is a model of hell. — Take it back, and meet me in the world of the living.