I am the thorn in your side
The blood your body musters,
The heat of your heart
When your red cells cluster
I am the plague of the world
The sinner of the saint
The very dust of human trust
Left in destiny's wake
There isn't much I cannot be
Metamorphic insanity
Inside a cage of rusted gold
Bleached in humanity
Under your weary eyes
And below your scorned heart,
I am the pain of heartbreak
When your trust splits apart
I am the reason you are cold
The fright inside the dark
The eyes that glow so handsomely
The burning desire that is stark
All around in prism lights
I am the setting sun-
The star so bright, the paragon
Of breathing as you run
In your grasp and in your mind
Never can you escape me,
Never will I cease my chase
Even if you rape me
No matter how much you scorn-
Or desire my voluptuous ways,
I am the one with your heart
I bring you that dreary haze
Look around and you will see
The very fabrics of my sight
For I am the eyes of every man-
Woman and child, in flight
I am the echoes of voices high
Inside this padded cell,
I am the intense burning of
The Father's burning hell
I am the hunger and the notion,
The distantly close commotion
With little more and less a lot,
The very zero divided quotient
I laugh at all your madness
I give you all your rain,
I comfort you when you are sad
Yet give you all this pain
I wisp about in shadow forms
Inside your childhood dreams,
I become the anger, hatred and lust
Bursting at your seams
I give you a reason to live,
And yet so many also to die-
I give you so much to adore
And yet I make it so shy
I take your freedom for myself
In exchange for liberty,
I create such contradictions...
For I am reality.
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