A series of words to hide a lesson unlearned Distract and delay the way you prefer Human/inhuman The tether is severed The othering starts This twisted endeavour The pain is forever An insignificant island nation with ideas above its station Are you noticing a pattern? Leaps of logic come dyed in the wool Terminally deluded It's only yourselves you manage to fool A nation waits Breath baited In the shadow of an obsolete weapon A nation waits Breath baited We hold a blunt knife to the throat of a colossus Slide down the slope, getting ever closer A supernatural veil for a darker reality Their words hide a nuclear wind Like a breeze through chimes Before the storm Before the crossed line A series of words to hide a lesson unlearned Distract and delay the way you prefer Human/inhuman The tether is severed The othering starts This twisted endeavour The pain is forever You see yourself as the hero You're the only one Barrels (Gun?) to the head in mutual respect The threat rests in the hand not the gun Does it disappoint you to know your version of evil doesn't exist? Just people in power hiding what's real You have no idea where this path will end Is it worse to imagine that maybe you do After all you're only human An insignificant island nation with ideas above its station Are you noticing a pattern? Leaps of logic come dyed in the wool Only yourselves you fooled Does it make it easier to accept To imagine great horns, gnashing teeth, sharp claws, black eyes Absolute power Dooms us all in the end You may only see a rotten flower But it sits atop a stem Roots and soil And to get to where its got to It's needed water to drink Air to breathe And sunlight on which to feed