The Shadow Speaks
Can you recognise your own voice?
Just abandon
All pretense, each disguise
Every notion of compromise
Every meaningless, futile choice
That occurs to you at random
Snip and snap, you’ll cut my strings
But what use is a angel with clipped wings?
You unleashed me, and I shall sing
My song of wrath, and to me you’ll cling
As paralysis has struck you, and fear will spring
From the dark corners whence I beckon and bring
Forth all your darkest desires
For you are not the man you think you know
You’re an evil husk of skin and bone
A rotten apple with a poison core
With a tongue now forked, silver and honed
Simply everything that you used to abhor
The ice and the dark that fears no fire
A force of nature yet to transpire
A monolith of corrupted power
Glimpse once at it, and you’d bow and cower
For the person that they thought they’d admire
Is a forgotten vestige, locked in my tower
I haunt your dreams, and taunt when you scream
When you flaunt what you want, but it’s not what it seems
Undaunted by the cost of being free
I am that gnawing doubt and the growing worry
Your sins and temptations, your tempestuous fury
Your cynical retribution,
An insidious fusion
Of greed and lust, and even more amusing
Of certain confusion and hidden intentions
You once stood proud, now you will kneel
Clutching your death warrant, that ill fated deal
That you signed with your bare hands
As you stared and I snared you where you stand
I lurked within your wants and thoughts
And one day you made me your last resort
So I incarcerated you in Tartarus itself
Like Icarus you fell, and lost yourself
Try as you might, you can’t escape this maze
And if you act clever and hide, I’ll set it ablaze
Take a final look at your ruined visage
For you’re nothing more than a bird in a cage
So put pen to paper, write in blood or ink
If you even have left the capacity to think
For you’re close to death, you’re brought to the brink
Yet still chained and bound, link by link
I could leave you for the crows to feed and vultures to serve
Might still be a kinder fate than you’d ever deserve
In the end, there you lie, cold and numb
Stop fighting, stop writhing, and simply succumb.
